{"id":21225,"date":"2025-09-15T16:44:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=21225"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:43:30","slug":"esha-patel","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/people\/profiles\/esha-patel\/","title":{"rendered":"Esha Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Class Year\u2028<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Class of 2027<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Where are you from?\u2028<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Jersey<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What is your favorite Biology or BMB course?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Systems Physiology (BI315)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What kind of research have you done?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I work with cardiomyocytes and patient-derived light chains to decipher the cellular mechanisms that drive clonal plasma cell derived-light chain induced cardiotoxicity<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>How did you get your research position?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I got my research position by cold emailing different labs at BU. I am grateful to have gotten a response from my great mentor in a field I am very interested in!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What extracurricular activities are you involved in?\u2028<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am the co-founder and vice president of Prevent at BU, which is a preventive medicine student organization on campus. Additionally, I am the vice-president of the South Asian Student Association at BU. I do research at the Center for Regenerative Medicine on the medical campus and volunteer at Rosie\u2019s Place, a woman\u2019s shelter, in South Boston.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What is your favorite dining spot on or around campus?\u2028<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chipotle<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What is your favorite BU memory?\u2028<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Marathon Monday<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What\u2019s one BU tip you wish you knew sooner?\u2028<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fenway dining hall is underrated<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What are your post-graduation plans?\u2028<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I hope to continue on to medical school after graduation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25081,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/21225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/21225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21227,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/21225\/revisions\/21227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}