Katy Hesselden

Project Director

Passionate about improving the lives of patients through health research, Katy brings an enthusiastic and collaborative approach to every project. She holds an LLM in Healthcare Ethics and Law and a BSC (Hons) in Molecular and Cellular Biology.

She is very keen to support the next generation of reviewers and supports colleagues in all aspects of their career development.

Katy is a Project Director at YHEC, in the Review and Evidence Synthesis team with a background which includes working in research and development in the medical device industry.

With over seven years’ experience of working on a wide range of reviews, including rapid reviews, systematic reviews and critiques of reviews, she specialises in leading review projects across a diverse portfolio of projects for clients in the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors. Katy has worked across a range of therapeutic areas including infection, oncology, ophthalmology, cardiology, and cell-based therapies. She also has experience preparing submissions for organisations like NICE as well as leading projects as part of YHECs role as an external assessment group for NICE.