After being spoiled with daily access to baguettes, Nico’s family decided to move from Paris to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010, where the sourness of the bread would provide him an opportunity for real character growth. As a leukemia survivor, Nico developed an early interest in cancer biology. He received his BS in Biology from Stanford in 2019 and did his undergraduate research work in Irving Weissman’s lab, developing fluorescence-based tools for lineage tracing. He joined the Harvard MD/PhD program in 2020 to pursue a career in pediatric oncology and became a Beroukhim lab member in 2023. Nico is thrilled to leverage molecular biology techniques to better understand mechanisms of DNA-damage repair alterations in pediatric gliomas.

Fun fact: Despite holding the Poux family record for largest number of mosquito bites in a single night (63!), in the 12 years since receiving his bone marrow transplant Nico has only been bitten once by a mosquito. He is proud to have exacted revenge on the mosquito that broke his bite-less streak.

Favorite quote: “That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most.” — Russell, from the movie “Up”