Rachel Sutcliffe

Rachel is a Future 100 PhD student working in Professor André Ng’s group, supervised by Dr Reshma Chauhan. Her project aims to investigate the role of the potassium rectifier currents in the cardiac sympathetic electrophysiological response using an isolated innervated heart preparation. Rachel previously attained her BSc in Physiological Sciences at the University of Oxford. This was followed by an extended research-based MSc in Zoology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver under Professor Tony Farrell. Here she investigated the intrinsic heart rate resetting that occurs in rainbow trout with temperature. She has also spent a year in industry working as a scientist in the translational research group in Oxford Biomedica. Prior to her PhD she was working as a research assistant under Prof Nick Morrell at the University of Cambridge on a project looking at the role of PKM2 in pulmonary artery hypertension.

R.L. Sutcliffe, S. Li, K.M. Saunders and A.P. Farrell, 2020. A rapid intrinsic heart rate resetting response with thermal acclimation in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Journal of Experimental Biology - https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.215210 

MSc in Comparative Physiology, 2013-2018 - University of British Columbia

BA in Physiological Sciences, 2010-2013 - Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall)