Regeneron STS 2017 Finalists

Congratulations to the 40 Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalists!

The Regeneron Science Talent Search (Regeneron STS) is the nation’s most prestigious pre-college science competition. Science Talent Search alumni have made extraordinary contributions to science and hold more than 100 of the world’s most coveted science and math honors, including the Nobel Prize and the National Medal of Science.

Students are selected based upon their scientific research and also on their overall potential as future leaders of the scientific community.

On January 4, the Society named the top scholars (formerly called semifinalists) of the Regeneron STS. Each scholar and their school were awarded $2,000. From that select pool, 40 finalists are then invited to Washington, DC in March to undergo final judging, display their work to the public, meet with notable scientists, and compete for $1.8 million in awards, including the top award of $250,000.

Read the official press release

Read a blog post on Medium by George Yancopoulos, Founding Scientist, President, Regeneron Laboratories and Chief Scientific Officer, Regeneron; Science Talent Search 1976 Alum.

View the full list of Scholars

Attend the Public Exhibition of Projects

Baral, Jessika

Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, CA

Machine Learning Tool for Detection of Small Cell Lung Cancer Stage Using Novel Nuclear Factor I/B Expression: Significantly Increase Patient Survival in Less than One Minute

Bingham, Beau Taylor

Cascia Hall Preparatory School, Tulsa, OK

Analysis of the Antimicrobial Efficacies and Structural Characteristics of Fractional Components of Selected Algal Extracts

Chattopadhyay, Sambuddha

Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD

On T-Reflection via Analytic Continuation in Quantum Mechanics

Chung, Jonathan H

Hendrick Hudson High School, Montrose, NY

Interaction of Circulating Gut Microbiota-generated Metabolites with the Function and Expression of SLC6A3, the Dopamine Transporter

Dalvi, Rohan

Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD

Kinetic Trapping and Structural Determination of Native-State Biomolecules in the Gas Phase

Das, Indrani

Academy for Medical Science Technology, Hackensack, NJ

Exosomal miR-124a: Novel Translational Astrocyte Repair in Reactive Astrogliosis in vitro

Edupuganti, Vineet

Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, OR

Development of a High-Performance Biodegradable Battery for Transient Electronics

Elliott, Steven Thomas

Magnolia Academy, Parker, TX

A Quadcopter Nonlinear Motor Controller Using Force Sensor Feedback

Fang, Jacy

Academy for Medical Science Technology, Hackensack, NJ

The Living Drug: A Novel Method of Inducing Stem-like Memory T Cells from Antigen-Experienced Cells for CAR-T Immunotherapy

Greco, Isabella Iris

Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY

The Effect of Gender Stereotype and Stereotype Inconsistency on False Memory of Occupation Descriptions

Hajlasz, Natalia

Taylor Allderdice High School, Pittsburgh, PA

Atomistic Simulation of Pathways for Mg2+ – Water Dissociation With Rigorous Kinetics

Hord, Blake

Dobbs Ferry High School, Dobbs Ferry, NY

High Mass Planet Spiral Shocks as a Source of Infrared Emission from Protoplanetary Disks

Iyer, Krithika

Plano East Senior High School, Plano, TX

Bayesian Knowledge Trace for Mind Theoretic Applications

Khandelwal, Apoorv

Tesla STEM High School, Redmond, WA

Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Experimental Fabrication of Nanoporous Graphene Membranes for Optimal Water Permeability in Reverse Osmosis Desalination

Lee, Nathaniel Paul

Jericho Senior High School, Jericho, NY

Novel Femtosecond ZnSe Ceramic Based Optical Parametric Oscillators: Cost-effective Lasers for Infrared Spectroscopy Applications

Li, Dylan

Hunter College High School, New York, NY

Designing and Testing a Compound Targeting the Divergent Roles of Adipose PPARGAMMA Isoforms in Regulating Metabolic Homeostasis

Madan, Vrinda

Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, FL

Identification of Highly Selective Anti-malarial Compounds and Characterization of Mechanisms of Action

Naidu, Prathik

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA

DNALoopR: A Novel High-Performance Machine Learning Predictor to Identify Genome-wide 3D DNA Interactions in Cancer

Novek, Ethan Joseph

Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT

Low-temperature Carbon Capture Using Aqueous Ammonia and Organic Solvents

Peterson, Emily Ann

Smithtown High School East, Saint James, NY

Lecithin-Retinol Acyl Transferase in Squamous Cell Carcinoma: The Relationship between Oncology and Wound Repair

Pierson, Laura Catherine

The College Preparatory School, Oakland, CA

Signatures of Stable Multiplicity Spaces in Restrictions of Representations of Symmetric Groups

Radiya-Dixit, Evani

The Harker School, San Jose, CA

Identification of Diagnostic Biomarkers and Therapeutic Cancer Targets Across Adenocarcinomas Using Genome-wide DNA Methylation Analyses

Ramani, Arjun Srinivasan

West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School, West Lafayette, IN

Fast Sampling of Stochastic Kronecker Graphs

Rekhtman, David Boris

Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, MD

A Study of the Induction of Immunogenic Cell Death in Response to Local Ablative Therapies of Cancer

Saltzman, Audrey

Byram Hills High School, Armonk, NY

Swift XRT and UVOT Investigation of Low-mass X-ray Binary 1RXS J180408.9-342058

Shah, Manan Ajay

The Harker School, San Jose, CA

Deep Learning Assessment of Tumor Proliferation in Histopathological Images for Categorical and Molecular Breast Cancer Severity Diagnosis

Subramaniam, Arjun

The Harker School, San Jose, CA

CadML: A New, Computational Approach to Optimizing Antibody Affinity for Design of Antibody Therapeutics

Sun, Alec

Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH

Infinite-Dimensionality of Certain Representations of Rational Cherednik Algebras of Type D

Tian, Jessica C

Del Norte High School, San Diego, CA

Antibacterial Property of Cellulose Paper Decorated with Ag/TiO₂ Nanocomposites

Verma, Archana

Jericho Senior High School, Jericho, NY

Spin-orbit Coupling Induced Heterogeneous Excited State Dynamics in 6-coordinate Transition Metal Protodyes

Wan, Stefan

Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, FL

Functionalizing Biochar with Mg-Al and Mg-Fe Layered Double Hydroxides for Phosphate Removal from Aqueous Solutions

Wang, Felix

The Roxbury Latin School, West Roxbury, MA

Functional Equations in Complex Analysis and Number Theory

Weaver, Jackson Barker

Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School, Jersey City, NJ

The Electrifying Speed of Enzymes

Wellman, Julian

Greenhills School, Ann Arbor, MI

Lower Bounds on Davenport-Schinzel Sequences via Rectangular Zarankiewicz Matrices

Woo, Derek

Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT

Battling Honey Bee CCD via Reduction of Neonicotinoid Content in Guttation Droplets Using Biochar Soil Additives

Xu, Byron Lee

William P. Clements High School, Sugar Land, TX

Direct Determination of Ocean Temperature Profiles from Seismic Oceanography

Yang, Amber Zoe

Trinity Preparatory School, Winter Park, FL

Orbital Recognition System for Space Debris Tracking Using Artificial Neural Networks—A Journey from Inner-brain GPS to Outer-space GPS

Yang, Michael

Charlotte Latin School, Charlotte, NC

Modelling Protein Population Interactions for Rapid Investigation of Collective Behavior

Yeiser, Aaron Joseph

Perkiomen Valley High School, Collegeville, PA

A Next Generation Partial Differential Equation Solver

Zhu, Mary

Nashua High School, Nashua, NH

Impact of Carbon Tax Policies on the Global Agricultural Economy: A Computational Spatial Partial Equilibrium Modeling Approach