Elizabeth Young

Elizabeth joined ACF Investors as a Senior Investment Analyst in August 2021. She previously worked as an investment analyst for Creator Fund, a student-led VC that invests in university startups, where she had a particular focus on life science and medtech opportunities. She has an extensive background in medical engineering, having completed her BSc Hons in Molecular and Cellular Biology (with Biotechnology) at the University of Glasgow. Her interest in neural plasticity in response to inflammation and the resulting impact on cognitive health, combined with an interest in tissue engineering, led her to a PhD in modelling pathology of the spinal cord vasculature from the University of Leeds.