Abstract
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. Arístides López-Márquez is first author on ‘ Col6a1 knock-in mice provide a promising pre-clinical model for collagen-VI-related dystrophies’, published in DMM. Arístides is a senior postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Cecilia Jiménez-Mallebrera at Sant Joan de Deu Research Institute (Barcelona, Spain) investigating advanced personalized therapies based on nucleic acids, such as gene editing or antisense oligonucleotides, for congenital muscular dystrophies and rare genetic diseases.