# First person – Trinitee Oliver

## TL;DR

Trinitee Oliver discusses her research on how the glucocorticoid receptor protects muscle and heart in disease.

## Contribution

The study reveals a local protective role of the glucocorticoid receptor in dystrophic muscle and heart.

## Key findings

- The glucocorticoid receptor provides localized protection in dystrophic muscle.
- This protection extends to the heart during disease progression.

## 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. Trinitee Oliver is first author on ‘
The glucocorticoid receptor acts locally to protect dystrophic muscle and heart during disease’, published in DMM. Trinitee conducted the research described in this article while a student researcher in Dr Christopher Heier's lab at Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA. She is now a first-year PhD student at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, CA, USA, investigating sex differences, immunogenetics and precision medicine.