First person – Vlasta Lungova

Abstract

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Vlasta Lungova is first author on ‘ Exposure to e-cigarette vapor extract induces vocal fold epithelial injury and triggers intense mucosal remodeling’, published in DMM. Vlasta is a scientist in the lab of Susan L. Thibeault at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA, investigating the mechanisms of laryngeal and vocal fold mucosal development and postnatal regeneration.