First person – Payel Kundu

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. Payel Kundu is first author on ‘ Xanthohumol improves cognition in farnesoid X receptor-deficient mice on a high-fat diet’, published in DMM. Payel conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral fellow in Jacob Raber's lab at Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA. She is now a health scientist in the lab of Sharlee More at Cardno ChemRisk, Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, intervening on metabolism to promote healthy cognitive ageing and reduce the detrimental effects of consumption of a Western diet.