First person – Elise McKean

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Elise McKean is first author on ‘ Drug repurposing to combat multidrug-resistant hookworm’, published in BiO. Elise is a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr Damien O'Halloran at The George Washington University, USA, investigating the molecular mechanisms that impart drug resistance in hookworm.