First person – Toni Lemmetyinen

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. Toni Lemmetyinen is first author on ‘ Fibroblast-derived EGF ligand neuregulin 1 induces fetal-like reprogramming of the intestinal epithelium without supporting tumorigenic growth’, published in DMM. Toni is a PhD student in the lab of Saara Ollila at the University of Helsinki, investigating how stromal fibroblasts regulate the intestinal epithelium.