Sidney Smith is a PhD student in the Cell and Molecular Biology graduate group at the University of Pennsylvania. She received a BS in Molecular Genetics from The Ohio State University (OSU). While attending OSU, she worked in the Experimental Hematology Lab at the OSU Wexner Medical Center, where she helped develop therapeutic solutions to sickle cell disease. After graduating, Smith worked as an NIH PREP Scholar at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, researching organelle interactions and developing imaging tools to track membrane contacts. In the Rivella Lab, she is working on lipid nanoparticles and lentiviral vector therapeutic technology to target the brain in hopes of treating metachromatic leukodystrophy.