First person – Ariany Oliveira-Santos

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. Ariany Oliveira-Santos is first author on ‘ Vemurafenib improves muscle histopathology in a mouse model of LAMA2-related congenital muscular dystrophy’, published in DMM. Ariany is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dean Burkin at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA, investigating muscle biology and the development of new therapeutics for muscle diseases, particularly muscular dystrophies.