First person – Joshua Hack

Abstract

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Joshua Hack is first author on ‘ Machine learning models reveal distinct disease subgroups and improve diagnostic and prognostic accuracy for individuals with pathogenic SCN8A gain-of-function variants’, published in BiO. Joshua is a Data Scientist in the lab of Dr Michael Hammer at the University of Arizona, investigating the mechanisms of diseases and expanding the phenotypic landscapes of rare genetic diseases towards the goal of improving treatment strategies on an individual basis.