Abstract
ABSTRACT
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Amy Irving is first author on ‘ Vitamin D receptor absence does not enhance intestinal tumorigenesis in ApcPirc/+ rats’, published in BiO. Amy is a research scientist in the lab of Hector DeLuca at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, investigating the individual contributions of sunlight, vitamin D, calcium, and other pathway players on diseases with a location association paradigm, specifically colon cancer and multiple sclerosis.
Publisher
The Company of Biologists
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology