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December 9, 2011 06:05 am

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 is proceeds to kills cancer stem cells."

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