First person – Xiao-Zhi Cheng

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Xiao-Zhi Cheng is first author on ‘ Intercellular transfer of P-glycoprotein mediates the formation of stable multidrug resistance in human bladder cancer BIU-87 cells’, published in BiO. Xiao-Zhi conducted the research described in this article while a Master’s student in Professor Hui-Liang Zhou’s lab at Fujian Medical University, People's Republic of China. He is now an attending physician in the lab of Hui-liang Zhou at Huanggang Central Hospital, China, investigating the mechanism of multidrug resistance formation and the role of P-glycoprotein within it.