17-Year-Old Wins $100K For Creating Cancer Killing Nanoparticle

An anonymous reader writes "17-year-old Angeloa Zhang was recently awarded the $100,000 Grand Prize in the Individual category of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Her project was entitled 'Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells.' The creation is the so-called 'Swiss army knife of cancer treatment,' which allows a nanoparticle to be delivered to a tumor where it proceeds to kills cancer stem cells."

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Re:Golly!

[Joce640k]

In the USA she would have been sent outside to play sports. All that sitting indoors and reading isn't good for people and they need to develop socially instead of doing nerdy stuff like curing cancer.