First person – Ling Wang

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. Ling Wang is first author on ‘ NANOG and LIN28 dramatically improve human cell reprogramming by modulating LIN41 and canonical WNT activities’, published in BiO. Ling is a postdoc in the lab of Dr Young Tang at the University of Connecticut, USA, investigating somatic cell reprogramming and mechanisms of induced pluripotency for humans and large farm animal cells.