First person – Andy Shao

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. Andy Shao is first author on ‘ Arap1 loss causes retinal pigment epithelium phagocytic dysfunction and subsequent photoreceptor death’, published in DMM. Andy is a resident physician in the lab of Dr Ala Moshiri MD, PhD at School of Medicine, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA, investigating the molecular mechanisms of heritable retinal disorders.