First person – Trinitee Oliver

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. Trinitee Oliver is first author on ‘ The glucocorticoid receptor acts locally to protect dystrophic muscle and heart during disease’, published in DMM. Trinitee conducted the research described in this article while a student researcher in Dr Christopher Heier's lab at Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA. She is now a first-year PhD student at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, CA, USA, investigating sex differences, immunogenetics and precision medicine.