First person – Li Wang
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ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Li Wang is first author on ‘ Suppressing STAT3 activity protects the endothelial barrier from VEGF-mediated vascular permeability’, published in DMM. Li is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Luke Hoeppner at the University of Minnesota, Austin, MN, USA, investigating dysregulation of vascular permeability in the pathology of several human diseases using zebrafish, mouse and cultured human endothelial cells as models.