First person – Luis E. Salazar Leon

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. Luis E. Salazar Leon is first author on ‘ Purkinje cell dysfunction causes disrupted sleep in ataxic mice’, published in DMM. Luis conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Roy V. Sillitoe's lab at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. After his PhD, he co-founded Sobek AI in Seattle, Washington, USA, and his current interests lie in using generative AI to accelerate and democratize scientific discovery.