First person – John (Eddie) Edmund La Marca

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. John La Marca is first author on ‘ A Drosophila chemical screen reveals synergistic effect of MEK and DGKa inhibition in Ras-driven cancer’, published in DMM. John conducted the research described in this article while a research officer in Helena Richardson's lab at La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia. He is now a research officer in the lab of Gemma Kelly and Marco Herold at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia, investigating genetics, cancer and molecular signalling.