First person – Pinaki Mondal and Neesha Patel

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. Pinaki Mondal and Neesha Patel are co-first authors on ‘ Induction of pancreatic neoplasia in the KRAS/TP53 Oncopig’, published in DMM. Pinaki is a research scientist, and Neesha is a surgical resident, in the lab of Mark A. Carlson at University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA, investigating pancreatic adenocarcinoma and reprograming of its complex microenvironment in therapy resistance.