First person – Jun-yi Zhu

Abstract

ABSTRACT 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. Jun-yi Zhu is first author on ‘ APOL1-G2 accelerates nephrocyte cell death by inhibiting the autophagy pathway’, published in DMM. Jun-yi is an Assistant professor in the lab of Zhe Han at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, investigating Drosophila as a model to study human disease mechanisms and treatment approaches.