First person – Liheng Yang (杨利恒)

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Liheng Yang (杨利恒) is first author on ‘ Trophoblast organoids with physiological polarity model placental structure and function’, published in JCS. Liheng is a Senior Research Associate in the lab of Carolyn Coyne at Department of Integrative Immunobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, USA, investigating using human placenta organoids to explore the underlying mechanisms of the innate immune defense against pathogen infection at the maternal–fetal interface.