First person – Masayoshi Ko

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Masayoshi Ko is first author on ‘ Modulation of serotonin in the gut-liver neural axis ameliorates the fatty and fibrotic changes in non-alcoholic fatty liver’, published in DMM. Masayoshi is an MD and PhD student in the lab of Kenya Kamimura and Shuji Terai at Niigata University, Japan, investigating the involvement of multi-organ linkage via autonomic nerves in non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFLD).