First person – Arnaud Duchon

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. Arnaud Duchon is first author on ‘ Ts66Yah, a mouse model of Down syndrome with improved construct and face validity’, published in DMM. Arnaud is a PhD research engineer in the lab of Yann Herault at the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France, investigating trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) with mouse model approaches.