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Nikolai Slavov is a systems biologist directing a laboratory at Northeastern University. His research is best know for pioneering work on ribosome specialization  and developing Single Cell ProtEomics by Mass Spectrometry (SCoPE-MS) and has been awarded the National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award.

Education and Research
Slavov received a Bachelor degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. His doctoral research in the Botstein laboratory discovered a simple mechanism that can account for the growth-rate dependent transcriptional responses across a wide range of growth conditions and growth rates. . Slavov did postdoctoral research with Alexander van Oudenaarden at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aiming to understand the Warburg effect, a hallmark of cancer cells characterized by the fermentation of glucose in the presence of enough oxygen to support respiration. His research demonstrated that aerobic glycolysis can reduce the energy demands associated with respiratory metabolism and stress survival and that, contrary to expectations and decades-long assumptions, exponential growth at a constant rate can represent not a single metabolic/physiological state but a continuum of changing states characterized by different metabolic fluxes.

Activism
Slavov is an advocate for communicating biomedical research via preprints and for its transparent and comprehensive peer review.