First person – Sophia Pantasis

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. Sophia Pantasis is first author on ‘ Vertebrate lonesome kinase modulates the hepatocyte secretome to prevent perivascular liver fibrosis and inflammation’, published in JCS. Sophia conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in the labs of Dr Mattia R. Bordoli and Professor Sabine Werner at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She is now a Discovery Track postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr Valerie Salazar at Novartis, Basel, Switzerland, investigating the molecular players behind fibroproliferative diseases.