First person – David Pirovich

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open (BiO), helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. David Pirovich is first author on ‘Schistosoma mansoni glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase enhances formation of the blood-clot lysis protein plasmin’, published in BiO. David is a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr Patrick Skelly at Tufts University, North Grafton, MA, USA, investigating novel moonlighting functions (thrombolysis, immunomodulation) of Schistosoma mansoni glycolytic enzymes.