{"id":17480,"date":"2022-10-27T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=17480"},"modified":"2023-09-14T16:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T20:28:04","slug":"nicky-eleuteri","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/profile\/nicky-eleuteri\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicky Eleuteri &#8211; Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I graduated from Boston University in 2018 with a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Immediately after graduation, I worked as a research technician in Boston at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for two years before moving to Nashville for graduate school at Vanderbilt University. As a graduate student, I am studying the regulatory mechanisms of the oncogenic transcription factor MYC and I hope to lay the foundation for cancer treatments that target this &#8220;undruggable&#8221; protein.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program of Study:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Major: Biochemistry &amp; Molecular Biology<\/li>\n<li>Minor: Statistics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>BU Involvement:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BU UNICEF<\/li>\n<li>BU Statistics Club<\/li>\n<li>Kilachand Ambassador<\/li>\n<li>Kilachand Peer Mentor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Awards and Honors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BU UROP Research Award<\/li>\n<li>ASBMB Degree Certification<\/li>\n<li>Vanderbilt University Dean&#8217;s Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":16931,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16931"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17716,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17480\/revisions\/17716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}