First person – Roberta Azzarelli

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. Roberta Azzarelli is first author on ‘ Three-dimensional model of glioblastoma by co-culturing tumor stem cells with human brain organoids ’, published in BiO. Roberta conducted the research described in this article while a Rita Levi Montalcini fellow in Roberta Azzarelli's lab at Unit of Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Italy. She is now a research associate in the lab of Anna Philpott at the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, investigating how stem cell and developmental biology can help tackle cancer.