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ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award
Selenoprotein O (SelO) is a mitochondrial pseudokinase enzyme that AMPylates, or transfers an AMP molecule to, cellular proteins. However, SelO’s role as an AMPylator in oxidative stress res…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
Global food security and sustainability issues, and rapid urbanization call for high-tech, space-efficient, sustainable urban farming technologies. In Singapore, only 3.9% of vegetables cons…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Coral reefs, containing over 25% of marine species, are vital ecosystems that support a diverse array of life and provide crucial resources for sustenance, supplying food for over 1 billion…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) remains the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women. It has recently been demonstrated that stimulator-of-interferon genes (STING) is highly…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Second Award
The growing global energy demand and environmental concerns have highlighted green hydrogen as a promising solution due to its potential for clean energy production. Pursuing the exploration…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
1 in 5 people develop cancer in their lifetime. Due to treatment inefficiency, cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide. Deciphering immune cell-cancer cell interactions within the tum…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Background Over 182,000 patients receive aortic valve replacements annually in the United States. However, valve replacement recipients must choose between two undesirable options, mechanica…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences Second Award
In Hawai?i, the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus carries avian malaria, threatening extinction for Native Hawaiian forest bird species. The most effective and environmentally friendly method…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences Second Award
Honeybees are irreplaceable, performing 80% of global crop pollination. However, commercial US hives have been dying at alarming rates (~50% annually). Scientific literature identifies small…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Mainstay of the treatment of wounds is the appropriate wound dressing. The purpose of dressing is to provide a clean surface, inhibit the pathogens using biocides, insert nutrients, promote…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry Second Award
Hydrogen is a clean energy carrier and a promising candidate for realizing carbon-neutral systems, as its only byproduct is water. However, the lack of clean water is a significant barrier t…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software Second Award
Ransomware attacks render data unusable and demand a ransom in order to restore data integrity. These attacks destroy billions of dollars every year in lost data and productivity at the indi…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Second Award
Arsenic accumulation in rice is becoming increasingly problematic, threatening the health of over 150 million people globally. This project aims to use rhizoremediation with rice plants tran…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Accurately determining the number of exoplanets in planetary systems is essential for gaining insight into planetary formation, the search for potentially habitable exoplanets, and the desig…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Second Award
The flowering of plants is necessary for their further reproduction. Flowering is regulated by hundreds of genes encoding proteins. The goal of my academic work is to find out how AGO bindin…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Since the pandemic, online chess has seen unprecedented growth in its user base. This growth is largely due to players being unable to convene physically in quarantine and wanting to play ga…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) guarantees reducing the cost of space cooling in a variety of applications. However, commercialization issues still exist for the production of PDRC…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry Second Award
Parkinson’s disease is a neurological disorder that impacts the movement control of patients due to the degeneration of neurons, reducing the dopaminergic levels in the brain. This causes sy…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Wildfires are a crucial problem that greatly affects many living things, especially the loss of many plants and animal species. Over the years, there have been more frequent wildfires. Self-…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences Second Award
Pebrine disease caused by Nosema bombycis is the most dreaded infectious disease in sericulture practice, accounting for 30% yield loss of silkworm with estimated economic loss of 10 million…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
An estimated 31.1% of all adults will experience an anxiety disorder in their lifetime, yet mental health diagnostic and intervention tools remain largely inaccessible, unaffordable, and cul…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting 50 million people around the world, characterized by brain atrophy, memory loss, and cognitive decline. While much has been…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
A speech sound disorder is any difficulty with perception or motor production of speech sounds and speech segments. If complications persist into late adolescence, individuals develop Residu…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Type I and Type II Diabetes are the number one cause of kidney failure, affecting 422 million people and being responsible for 1.5 million deaths worldwide. The leading upstream cause of dia…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Correlations between central black hole (BH) mass and certain physical properties of their host galaxies suggest BH feedback may have substantial impacts on galactic evolution. However, a la…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software Second Award
Digital medical image storage requirements are growing significantly with each passing year. Medical images require a high color depth of 12 bits per component for accurate assessment and an…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Natural catastrophe modeling allows for the evaluation of economic loss, property loss, and environmental damage during and after such an event. However, two central problems have arisen in…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
Current drone swarm technology is oftentimes not fully autonomous nor connected by a reliable network, and therefore cannot efficiently map large natural disaster environments to identify se…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
Breast Cancer (BC) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and is a significant cause of death worldwide, affecting around 2.3 million women annually. Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Several glucometer methods are available for patient-guided glycemic control to reduce the onset of diabetic complications. However, dipstick urine glucose tests using horseradish peroxidase…