Chase Yost

• Home institution: Bellarmine University

• Year: Junior

• Major: Biology major (Biochemistry minor)

• Research Site: University of Kentucky

• What will I be researching: I will be researching the therapeutic target PRL3, a phosphatase type enzyme implicated in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. I will use zebrafish and human cell lines to explore this target and its potential therapeutics. 

• Future goals: Pursuing a career as a physician-scientist

• Interest/hobby: Playing guitar and piano
  
  DKY... Chase is also Pre-Medical Society Committee Chair of Academics and a Bellarmine Society Member.