Indian-American Wins Top Science Prize

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    • Publish Date: Mar 19 2017 3:43PM
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Indian-American Wins Top Science Prize

Indian-American teenager, Indrani Das, won the top, $250,000 prize in the prestigious Regeneron Science Talent Search competition for her research on treating brain injuries and diseases. Another Indian-American, Arjun Ramani, took the third place, which carries a prize of $150,000, for his project on networks using mathematical field of graph theory and computer programming. It is the oldest US science competition for students and is now sponsored by the medical company, Regeneron, in association with the Society for Science and the Public (SSP).


What is this prize?
Nicknamed the ‘Junior Nobel Prize’, it was originally sponsored by Westinghouse in 1942 and Intel took it up from 1998 till last year. Twelve of the contest alumni have won Nobel Prizes.


The other winners
  • Archana Verma took the fifth place award of $90,000 for research that could lead to the development of windows that could produce solar power; Prathik Naidu received the seventh place award for a software to study human genomes and cancer, and Vrinda Madan got the ninth place award of $50,000 for her study of medications for malaria.
  • Eight other Indian-origin students were among the 40 finalists, each of whom received prizes of $25,000.

The research work
  1. Das’s research showed a way for increasing the survival rate of neurons affected by brain injury or neurodegenerative disease.
  2. She studied 24 compounds malaria treatment and identified two that appear to target the disease-causing organism in a novel way.

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Akshita Pandey LILAVATI BAI PODAR (A)-SCRUZ

Very Good to hear this. People should win prizes and make their country proud.

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