First person – Asli Adak and Romario Strasser

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. Asli Adak and Romario Strasser are co-first authors on ‘ Development of a laser injury model using human cardiac spheroids’, published in DMM. Asli conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Professor Nadia Mercader's lab at University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. She is now a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Professor Dr Camilla Schinner at University of Bern, investigating heart regeneration, development and diseases. Romario is a PhD student in the lab of Professor Nadia Mercader at University of Bern, investigating cardiac regeneration and development.