First person – Sheeza Mughal

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. Sheeza Mughal is first author on ‘ Taurine activates the AKT–mTOR axis to restore muscle mass and contractile strength in human 3D in vitro models of steroid myopathy’, published in DMM. Sheeza is a PhD Student in the lab of Javier Ramón-Azcón at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in Barcelona, Spain, and is interested in developing disease models to simplify understanding of otherwise complex diseases.