First person – Prashun Acharya

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. Prashun Acharya is first author on ‘ Select autosomal dominant DFNA11 deafness variants activate Myo7A targeting in epithelial cells’, published in JCS. Prashun is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Scott W. Crawley at University of Toledo, Ohio, USA, investigating the molecular mechanisms of motor proteins, particularly myosin-7A (Myo7A), and their roles in cellular processes and genetic hearing disorders, to potentially identify therapeutic targets for modulating Myo7A activity and develop novel therapies for treating hearing loss associated with Myo7A mutations.