Rachael Walker

Rachael Walker has over 20 years of experience in various roles related to flow cytometry and cell sorting. Rachael began their career at the University of Liverpool as a PhD student in Tissue Engineering. Rachael then moved on to the University of Cambridge, where they worked as a Senior Technical Officer and later as the Flow Cytometry Core Facility Manager at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research. In 2012, Rachael joined The Babraham Institute as the Head of the Flow Cytometry Core Facility. In 2023, they co-founded CytoCalx, a company focused on developing a biomarker for estimating the risk and severity of chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease.

Rachael Walker holds a PhD in Clinical Engineering from the University of Liverpool, which they completed from 2001 to 2005. Prior to that, they obtained a Bachelor of Medical Science (BMedSc) in Biomedical Material Science from the University of Birmingham from 1998 to 2001.