First person – Chad VanSant-Webb and Jessye Castro

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Chad VanSant-Webb and Jessye Castro are co-first authors on ‘ MicroRNA-21 promotes dysregulated lipid metabolism and hepatocellular carcinoma’, published in DMM. Chad is a Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) student in the lab of Dr Kimberley Evason at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, investigating inflammation. Jessye is a PhD student in the same lab, investigating cancer biomarkers that allow for early-stage diagnosis of cancer.