First person – Amy Irving

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. Amy Irving is first author on ‘ Vitamin D receptor absence does not enhance intestinal tumorigenesis in Apc(Pirc/+) rats’, published in BiO. Amy is a research scientist in the lab of Hector DeLuca at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, investigating the individual contributions of sunlight, vitamin D, calcium, and other pathway players on diseases with a location association paradigm, specifically colon cancer and multiple sclerosis.