Browse 393 real Biomedical and Health Sciences projects entered in 2026, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death among women, with approximately 42,000 deaths annually in the United States and over 700,000 worldwide. Brain metastases represent…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death among women, with approximately 42,000 deaths annually in the United States and over 700,000 worldwide. A majority of these deaths…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer with a 5-year survival rate of less than 10%. My project focused on using Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) as a vessel for gene t…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's affect millions worldwide, yet current diagnostic methods remain invasive, expensive, and largely inaccessible during the critical early intervent…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Bacillus Thuringiensis is a bacterium which, in a study led by Mizuki et. al. in 1999-2000, had been discovered to produce a variety of special Cry(Crystal) proteins in the pesticidal bacter…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award
PROBLEM Cerebral aneurysm rupture causes subarachnoid hemorrhage with a 50% mortality rate. The current clinical detection tool, the PHASES score, has an AUC of 0.64 and misclassifies 70-80%…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Imagine if we could control how cells behave when there is a disease in our body. Scientists are doing this by targeting the tiny survival manual inside our cells called DNA with a tool call…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a developmental disorder characterized by physical, cognitive, and behavioral abnormalities resulting from alcohol exposure during pregnancy. To better unders…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Dementia and Alzheimer's disease are leading problems for seniors today, affecting millions of individuals worldwide. Symptoms of these conditions include cognitive impairment, personality c…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
When writing braille by hand, the writer will often use a braille slate. Using a standard braille slate, they write from the back of the page, which creates a unique challenge as the letters…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Swallowing pills can be a massive fear and nuisance, that begs the question; does the size of pharmaceutical capsules affect how fast they dissolve in our bodies? There were three capsule si…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Helicobacter pylori infects over 4.4 billion people and is a WHO Group 1 carcinogen linked to gastric cancer. Rising antibiotic resistance, particularly to clarithromycin (>30% in many regio…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Drug repurposing involves identifying new therapeutic uses for existing drugs that have already been approved or tested for other diseases, offering a faster and lower-cost alternative to tr…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality, primarily due to its high metastatic potential and the difficulty of early detection. Current clinical approaches rely on a…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease affecting approximately 18 million people worldwide. Many treatments rely on monoclonal antibody drugs that block inflammatory signals such…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Project Number: 081-670-81 Title: AI Model Defining Heart Healthy Foods Team Member(s): Wanqi Li Purpose: This project builds an AI-assisted tool that helps people identify heart-healthy foo…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Every 40 seconds someone has a stroke and up to 30% are caused by a heart condition called atrial fibrillation that produces zero warning signs until it's too late. We built a portable heart…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division) Third Award
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), a major subtype of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), is characterized by aggressive extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation driven in part by…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Our project focuses on using statistical measures to make comparisons between the different factors that can affect Alzheimer’s disease cognitive trajectories. Firstly, we conducted a meta-a…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Invisible to the naked eye but potentially harmful to our health, airborne bacteria are a hidden threat that demand an effective mitigation strategy. This study investigated the effect of sa…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions, characterized by accumulation of amyloid beta oligomers causing neuronal dysfunction. The ubiquitin-proteasome system…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Protamine 1 (PRM1) and protamine 2 (PRM2) are essential for packaging sperm DNA and maintaining genome stability during spermatogenesis. Changes in their expression levels are associated wit…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), are typically diagnosed after 50-80% neuronal loss, reflecting a critical failure of early…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Visual impairment (VI) affects 2.2 billion people worldwide, and 1 billion cases are preventable with early diagnosis. Retinal diseases are preventable causes of VI. Clinical Decision Suppor…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Despite advances in immunotherapy, up to 60% of melanoma patients do not respond to treatment. Emerging evidence suggests that physical exercise enhances anti-tumor immunity; however, the mo…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Chronic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (CHP) is a progressive interstitial lung disease caused by repeated inhalation of environmental antigens and is particularly prevalent among agricultural…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Nearly 50% of IVF embryos arrest before they become viable pregnancies, and the molecular mechanisms causing this failure remain poorly understood. The Digital Embryo is the first multi-omic…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Purpose: About 7.2 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's Disease (AD), with the number expected to to double by 2060. Currently used drugs for AD only reduce disease symptoms and mar…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Sleep apnea, a disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep due to airway obstruction or disrupted brain signaling, affects over one billion people worldwide.However,…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division) Fourth Award
An AI Approach: Photo-Based Jaundice Detection and Prediction in Newborns Ronika Pillarisetty J-15-17 I did not use AI, when writing this abstract, these are my own words and data analysis f…