First person – Elin Schoultz and Ellen Johansson

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Elin Schoultz and Ellen Johansson are co-first authors on ‘ Tissue architecture delineates field cancerization in BrafV600E-induced tumor development’, published in DMM. Elin is an MD, PhD student in the lab of Mikael Nilsson at Sahlgrenska Centre for Cancer Research, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg. She has a great interest in the thyroid gland in particular, and the mechanisms of tumor development, progression and treatment associated with epithelial carcinomas in general. Ellen is an MD, resident physician in oto-rhino-laryngology and postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Karin Roberg at Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Division of Cell Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, with broad interest the thyroid gland, tumors of the head and neck region, and the molecular mechanisms that are important for tumor initiation, development, and treatment.