First person – Zhang Li

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. Zhang Li is first author on ‘ A kidney resident macrophage subset is a candidate biomarker for renal cystic disease in preclinical models’, published in DMM. Zhang is a postdoc in the lab of Bradley Yoder at University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, investigating the roles of renal macrophages and kidney injury in the pathology of cystic kidney diseases.