First person – Sandeep Basu

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. Sandeep Basu is first author on ‘ Latent TGFβ-binding proteins 1 and 3 protect the larval zebrafish outflow tract from aneurysmal dilatation’, published in DMM. Sandeep is a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of C. Geoffrey Burns and Caroline E. Burns at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, investigating the modeling of cardiovascular diseases in zebrafish, drug discovery and deciphering molecular pathways in these contexts. Currently, he is investigating the molecular pathogenesis of a cardiovascular disease–thoracic aortic aneurysm and performing small-molecule screening to suppress the disease phenotype.