First person – Jianhao Zeng

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. Jianhao Zeng is first author on ‘ A genetic mosaic mouse model illuminates the pre-malignant progression of basal-like breast cancer’, published in DMM. Jianhao conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Hui Zong's lab at University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Hamideh Parhiz at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, investigating mRNA-based in vivo cellular reprogramming for cancer prevention and treatment.