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| Junior Nobel for NRI girl in US | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 15
An Indian-American high school student beat out 1,600 others to win the top prize at a prestigious science talent search contest in US dubbed the “Junior Nobel”, for her project on cancer.
Shivani Sud, 17 hailing from Jammu and daughter of Dr. Anu Aggarwal was declared the grand prize winner for 2008 for developing a model she used to identify stage II colon cancer patients at a high risk for recurrence. She will get a 100.000 dollars scholarship.
Past winners of the competition have gone on to receive over 100 of the world’s most coveted science and math honours including six nobel prizes. The model created by Sud, a senior at Jordan High School in Durham, North Carolina also focused on identifying what may be the most effective drugs for treatment of those with a high risk of recurring tumours according to organizer of the annual Intel Science Talent Search.
Such a system would allow doctor to save the most aggressive or toxic therapy for those who need it most, said Dr. Andrew. M. Yeager, Chairman of the judging panel and a professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
Sud said that she was motivated in part by personal experience “One of my immediately family members has a benign brain tumour. It felt a big emotional imprint on me”, said the daughter if Ish and Anu Sud. Among the 40 finalists were seven Indian-American students including four girls.
Along with her research work, Sud represents students at school board meetings serves as a Durham Rescue Mission volunteer and performs classical and modern Indian dance. She said she wants to have a career in research and hopes to attend Princeton University or Harvard University but for now she has more immediate matters to tend to. “I have a lot of homework to catch up on. |
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