# First person – Elise McKean

## TL;DR

Elise McKean discusses her research on finding new drugs to treat drug-resistant hookworm infections.

## Contribution

The study explores drug repurposing strategies to address multidrug-resistant hookworm.

## Key findings

- Identified potential drug candidates for combating drug-resistant hookworm.
- Investigated molecular mechanisms behind drug resistance in hookworm.

## Abstract

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Elise McKean is first author on ‘
Drug repurposing to combat multidrug-resistant hookworm’, published in BiO. Elise is a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr Damien O'Halloran at The George Washington University, USA, investigating the molecular mechanisms that impart drug resistance in hookworm.