First person - Rachel Caines

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Rachel Caines is first author on 'The RNA-binding protein QKI controls alternative splicing in vascular cells, producing an effective model for therapy', published in JCS. Rachel is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Andriana Margariti at the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Belfast where she is specifically interested in the repair and regeneration of the cardiovascular system through the application of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).