PhD: Rebecca Ainslie

Second year PhD student on the Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme at the University of Edinburgh

Rebecca is a Precision Medicine PhD student based at the Institute for Regeneration and Repair at the University of Edinburgh. She completed an Honours degree in Biological Sciences (Immunology) and Masters by Research degree in Biomedical Sciences (Life Sciences) at the University of Edinburgh before starting her PhD in the Reproductive Immunology field. Her PhD research sets out to interrogate the phenotype and function of immune cells during post-menstrual endometrial repair. Rebecca’s research combines the use of in vivo models as well as a multi-centre clinical study to better understand the process of both normal and abnormal menstruation.