First person – Samia Pratt

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. Samia Pratt is first author on ‘ Evaluating the feasibility of gene replacement strategies to treat MTRFR deficiency’, published in DMM. Samia is a PhD student in the lab of Robert Burgess at The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA, investigating potential gene therapeutics for rare inherited mitochondrial diseases and peripheral neuropathies.