Having shown that both cardiac progenitor cells isolated from heart tissue and induced pluripotent cells can improve heart function after myocardial infarction, she is now looking at ways to optimise progenitor cell expansion in vitro, at metabolic maturation of differentiating iPS cells and at tissue engineering approaches to improve cell retention and cardiac function after transplantation. She has a DPhil in Chemistry from Oxford and has worked both within the Chemistry Department at Oxford and also in industry for Kodak Ltd and Synaptica Ltd. She had a career break of 10 years to spend time with her children and returned to science with a Daphne Jackson Returner?s Fellowship.