First person – Qingting Hu

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. Qingting Hu is first author on ‘ Role of ALDH1A1 and HTRA2 expression in CCL2/CCR2-mediated breast cancer cell growth and invasion ’, published in BIO. Qingting conducted the research described in this article while a Research Technician in Dr Nikki Cheng's lab at University of Kansas Medical Center, USA. She is now a Research Technician in the lab of Dr. Tonks Nicholas at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, investigating downstream signaling mechanism of CCL2/CCR2 pathway in breast cancer progression.