First person – Dongqing Zheng

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Dongqing Zheng is first author on ‘ AKT but not MYC promotes reactive oxygen species-mediated cell death in oxidative culture’, published in JCS. Dongqing is a PhD candidate in the lab of Nicholas A. Graham at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where he uses a systems biology approach to investigate diseases.