Nithin Tumma, a 17-year-old from Fort Gratiot, Mich., has won this
year's Intel Science Talent Search for his research on breast cancer
treatments that are more effective and less toxic.
High school seniors, competing for $630,000 in prize money, were
judged on their scientific research as well as achievement and
leadership, both inside and outside the classroom.
President Barack Obama met with the finalists at the White House on
Tuesday.
Tumma, who beat out 1,800 applicants in the talent search, won the
top $100,000 prize.
Dr. Andy Yeager, the head judge and director of the blood and marrow
transplant program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine,
said that Tumma's project has "tremendous implications for the
understanding of interactions among molecular pathways in cancer
development and for the development of targeted potentially less toxic
cancer treatments."
The second place prize of $75,000 went to Andrey Sushko, 17, of
Richland, Wash., for his development of a miniature motor, which uses
the surface tension of water to turn its shaft. Mimi Yen, 17, of
Brooklyn, N.Y., won third place and $50,000 for her study of evolution
and genetics.
Alumni from the science talent search have gone on to win Nobel
Prizes, Fields Medals, National Medals of Science, MacArthur Foundation
Fellowships and an Academy Award for best actress. The science talent
search is a program of the Society for Science & the Public.
Courtesy: TOI
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