First person - Aadil Qadir Bhat and Mir Owais Ayaz

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. Aadil Qadir Bhat and Mir Owais Ayaz are co-first authors on 'Identification of a stretch of four discontinuous amino acids involved in regulating kinase activity of IGF1R', published in JCS. Aadil is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Mohd Jamal Dar at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu, India, investigating membrane receptors and their role in cancers. Mir is a PhD student in the same lab investigating the role of GSK3-beta in different types of cancers.