First person – Shekhar Saha
ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Shekhar Saha is first author on ‘ The tumor-suppressive long noncoding RNA DRAIC inhibits protein translation and induces autophagy by activating AMPK’, published in JCS. Shekhar conducted the research described in this article while a Research Associate in Anindya Dutta's lab at University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. He is now a Research Scientist in the lab of Roger Abounader at the University of Virginia School of Medicine investigating the role of noncoding RNA in cancer biology.