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. Roza Masalmeh is first author on ‘ FAK modulates glioblastoma stem cell energetics via regulation of glycolysis and glutamine oxidation’, published in DMM. Roza is a postdoc in the lab of Margaret Frame at Institute of Genetics and Cancer, The University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK, investigating brain tumour vulnerabilities, particularly metabolic and cell–adhesion dependencies, to guide better treatments.