First person – Farah Abou Daya

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Farah Abou Daya is first author on ‘ Identifying novel links between cardiovascular disease and insomnia by modeling genes from a pleiotropic locus’, published in DMM. Farah conducted the research described in this article while a PhD candidate in Girish Melkani's lab at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Richa Saxena at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, investigating the genetic connections and underlying mechanisms between cardiovascular diseases and sleep disorders.