First person – Neha Saxena

Abstract

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Neha Saxena is first author on ‘ Stiffness-dependent MSC homing and differentiation into CAFs – implications for breast cancer invasion’, published in JCS. Neha conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Professor Shamik Sen's lab at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Professor Siddharth Dey, based in the Bioengineering Building, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, investigating the role of the microenvironment in disease and the progression of embryonic development.