Dr Kirsty Smitten had studied at the University of Sheffield and went on to help create drugs to tackle antimicrobial resistance.She won several awards during her career and was recently named on Forbes magazine's "30 under 30" list.Dr Smitten died from a rare form of heart cancer on 4 October, the University of Sheffield confirmed.The co-founder and CEO of spin-out company MetalloBio Ltd, Dr Smitten was also actively involved in various sporting teams across South Yorkshire, the university said.This included AFC Norton Woodseats Ladies, which she helped launch.Dr Smitten, who was originally from Solihull, had been diagnosed with cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare terminal disease which affects just two people in the UK every year. In April, she told the BBC: "It's so rare that my oncologist and none of the sarcoma team in Birmingham had ever seen it before."No one knows that you can even get heart cancer. I didn't, and I work in medicine."
