Helen McGettrick is an experimental biologist who specialises in developing multi-cellular in vitro models to examine the processes by which tissue resident cells influence leukocyte adhesion and migration during inflammation.

She obtained a MSc in Immunology from the University of Birmingham in 2002. She subsequently joined Gerard Nash’s Cardiovascular Rheology Group in the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, where she completed her PhD in Medical Sciences in 2006.  She was appointed as a University Fellow in Inflammation Biology for Health multidisciplinary translational research consortium at Birmingham in 2011.