First person – Tanja Mang

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. Tanja Mang is first author on ‘BMPR1A is necessary for chondrogenesis and osteogenesis, whereas BMPR1B prevents hypertrophic differentiation’, published in JCS. Tanja conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Anne Gigout's lab at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, where she worked on the development of relevant preclinical cell culture models to provide systems for testing drugs and identifying specific biomarkers.