First person – Asmahan Abu-Arish

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. Asmahan Abu-Arish is first author on ‘ Lipid-driven CFTR clustering is impaired in cystic fibrosis and restored by corrector drugs’, published in JCS. Asmahan conducted the research described in this article while a Research Associate in John W. Hanrahan's lab at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She is now an Assistant Professor at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, where she is interested in uncovering the molecular players behind disease development in real time, namely in hyperinflammatory pulmonary diseases, such as cystic fibrosis and COPD.