Indian-origin teen wins $250K for his remarkable scientific research on 'RNA Molecule Structure'
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New York, March 15 : An Indian-origin teen has won a prestigious high schoolers’ science prize of $250,000 for developing a computer model to predict the structure of RNA molecules that can aid in quickly diagnosing diseases.
Neel Moudgal, 17, was announced the winner of the Regeneron Science Talent competition on Tuesday. About 2,000 high school students competed in the Science Talent Search with 40 selected for the final round.
According to the Society for Science that ran the competition sponsored by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Moudgal's computational biology and bioinformatics project "can rapidly and reliably predict the structure of various RNA molecules to facilitate the development of novel diagnostics and therapeutic drugs for diseases such as cancer, autoimmune diseases and viral infections".
Pachipala used machine learning to assess a patient's suicide risk. By analysing a patient's journal entries the semantics in an individual's writing could be correlated with their psychological health and risk of suicide. Pachipala, who was chosen by the finalists as most exemplifying them, also was given the Seaborg Award.
The winners of the Science Talent Search programme originally sponsored by Westinghouse and now associated with the current sponsor Regeneron have gone on to win 11 Nobel Prizes and two Fields Medals for mathematics.