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

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 8, 2011 @05:29PM from the does-this-count-as-extra-credit? dept.

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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The 100k was a ripoff by WaterDamage · 2011-12-08 17:47 · Score: 1, Offtopic

The big pharma company(ies) will make billions from her discovery wile giving her a mere $100k! If I were her, I would have demanded indefinite royalties or 100 million dollars.