A 17-year-old high school girl devises a nanoparticle system that kills cancer and gets $ 100,000

A 17-year-old girl attending Montavista High School at the Siemens Mathematics, Science and Technology Contest (a competition to find and commend high school students for their outstanding talents at an early stage and promote the individual growth of high school students who challenge scientific research). High school student Angela Chan won the championship and received a college scholarship of 100,000 dollars (about 7.77 million yen).

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She is a 17-year-old high school girl Angela Chang

Angela Chang rejoices in receiving the award

The research is to design an image-guided system for photothermally controlled drugs to release a multifunctional nanosystem for the treatment of cancer stem cells.

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According to Dr. Tejal Desai, a professor of biotechnology and therapeutic science at the University of California, San Francisco, and an award judge, 'Angela is a Swiss army knife for cancer treatment (meaning Totoku knife, in short, a variety of useful things). 'She created nanoparticles that resemble' 'She has great creativity and inspiration in designing a nanoparticle system that can trigger the release of drugs at the site of the tumor while enabling non-invasive diagnostic imaging. Her work is an important step forward in advancing a new approach to the therapeutic goals of nanotechnology tumors, 'he said, in fact, her invented gold and iron oxide. Nanoparticle-based systems enable the eradication of cancer stem cells, allowing multifunctional nanoparticles to combine both therapeutic and diagnostic imaging into a single platform.

An easy-to-understand analogy is that 'a ninja with a mobile phone sent to assassinate cancer stem cells will report during the assassination activity.'

In addition, Dr. Tejal Desai said, 'Angela's commitment to research was truly impressive.' 'She has a deep understanding of the many methods she has investigated for her project, from designing nanoparticles to demonstrating their efficacy in vivo. I have, 'he said, and it seems that there is no doubt that it is a fairly excellent study.

In fact, Angela has also won two awards at the International Science and Engineering Fair ( Intel ISEF ) by Intel in 2011 and 2010 (that is, at the ages of 16 and 17).

Her hobbies are golf and piano, kayaking to relax, and her favorite book is F. Scott Fitzgerald 's 'This Side of Paradise,' chemistry or biomedical engineering, or physics. He wants to major in it and hopes to become a professor through research in the future.

Also, when I looked it up, it seems that her high school, Monta Vista High School, is located in Cupertino, California, and is one of the top high schools in California.

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Her graduation MontaVista is one of the top high schools in California.
Monta Vista High School http://www.mvhs.fuhsd.org/

As you can see from the school's website, MontaVista is a high school that scored 924 points in the 2008 API (Academic Performance Index). The highest score is 1000 points.

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In a telephone interview, she said, 'This is the moment when a science geek like me becomes a Cinderella.'