ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Jessika Wise is first author on ‘ Gelatin-methacryloyl hydrogel stiffness influences epithelial-mesenchymal transition in MCF7 but not MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells in 3D culture’, published in BiO. Jessika conducted the research described in this article while a PhD candidate under co-supervision by Dr Elisabeth Phillips, Professor Khoon Lim, Professor Tim Woodfield and Associate Professor Margaret Currie at University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand. She is now a Laboratory Manager/Research Fellow in the lab of Associate Professor Anna Pilbrow at University of Otago Christchurch, developing biomimetic 3D tumour models to explore how the physical and cellular tumour microenvironment shapes breast cancer behaviour.
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