First person – Atanu Ghorai

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Atanu Ghorai is first author on ‘ Biphasic DNA damage and non-canonical replication stress response govern radiation-induced senescence in glioblastoma’, published in JCS. Atanu conducted the research described in this article while a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Dr Shilpee Dutt's lab at Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), Kharghar, India. He is now an independent Research Scientist in the lab of Neuro-Oncology Program at Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation (MSMF), Mazumdar Shaw Medical Center, Bangalore, India, investigating the cellular and molecular intricacies of genomic instability and the tumour microenvironment.