First person – Valentina Zuco

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. Valentina Zuco is first author on ‘ Effects of irinotecan plus trabectedin on a desmoplastic small round cell tumor patient-derived xenograft’, published in DMM. Valentina is a scientist in the lab of Nadia Zaffaroni at Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Tumori, Milan, Italy, investigating patient-derived tumor models to identify new therapeutic strategies for patients with rare cancers to be translated into clinical trials.