205 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
205 projects · showing 1–30
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in the world, largely due to late-stage diagnosis. Current imaging diagnostic tools like CT and MRI scans lack the accuracy and sensitivity…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Arterial plaque can cause cardiovascular disease, often requiring invasive interventions such as stent placement or angioplasty, which carry risks of restenosis and vessel injury. This study…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Acid rain, microplastics, road salt, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are among the most harmful pollutants affecting terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Acid rain forms when sulfur dio…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences Second Award
Yaupon Holly and Yerba Mate are two economically important, caffeine-producing holly (i.e., Ilex) species in America. Yaupon Holly is native to North America and Yerba Mate is native to Sout…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Clutch is a hybrid electrostatic dry adhesive climbing robot, and is a culmination of a research and development project. For the past few decades, researchers have been trying to replicate…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
Hyperspectral imaging enables simultaneous acquisition of spatial and spectral information and has become indispensable in applications including material characterization, environmental eng…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
The human proteome comprises ~20,000 unique proteins, yet only 3,000 are theoretically druggable given current therapeutic methods. Molecular glues (MGs) are therapeutics that eliminate path…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over 75,000 wildfires occurred in North America in 2025. Smoke and ash from these fires contribute to both air and water pollution. Over 5,000 of these wildfires impacted the Great Lakes as…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Magnetohydrodynamic thrusters produce silent, propellorless thrust, but they have significant drawbacks that restrict their commercial use. Conduction based MHD, which sends an electric curr…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD), are leading causes of global disability. The development of effective therapeutics is challenged by the comple…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
In 2025, the American Cancer Society reported 2.1 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer, which is the leading cause for 1 in 6 deaths. This can largely be attributed to late diagnoses…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy is a breakthrough cancer treatment that genetically engineers patients' immune cells to target and destroy malignancies. While highly success…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
When cables and wired power delivery present safety or practicality issues, such as in biomedical implants or robotics applications, Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) using metamaterials (engine…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
The human brain is the most complex object in the universe, with over 86 billion neurons, each containing ~10,000 synapses. Determining the structure of the human brain in its entirety can p…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fixed-wing UAVs have greater efficiency, flight range, and speed compared to traditional multirotor drones, making them more suitable for applications like geological surveillance, weather s…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
Throughout synthetic biology among other domains, artificial neural networks (ANNs), through the replication of biological neural networks, have aided and automated several applications. Wit…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Deepfakes are a rapidly improving tool for disinformation. In 2025, around 8 million deepfakes were shared online, with numbers doubling every 6 months. Research has found that people strugg…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have demonstrated exceptional potential in task planning and optimization. However, little research has explored MAS integration across both hardware and software.…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Obesity-driven inflammation is primarily caused by pro-inflammatory immune cell infiltration, which leads to an increased secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines like TNF and IL-6. This driv…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Every year, approximately 90,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with lymphoma, a cancer impacting white blood cells called lymphocytes. The CD30 receptor, overexpressed in Hodgkin…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) affect over 300 million people globally. In previous research, we identified ASXL3 as a biomarker for NDDs, but our understanding of how the clinical seve…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
I present a new method for enhancing symbolic regression for differential equations via dimensional analysis, specifically Ipsens' and Buckingham Pi methods. Since symbolic regression often…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Wetlands are crucial to Earth, improving water quality, protecting against floods, and providing homes to hundreds of species. Wetland loss has increased by more than 50% in the US since 200…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
In 2023, air travel contributed 2.5% of total CO2 emissions, significantly impacting climate change. Reducing aircraft drag decreases fuel consumption, which is critical as commercial airlin…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Despite 70% of our planet being covered by water, only 3% of that is fresh water, with the vast majority being saline. World WildLife predicts that two-thirds of the world’s population may f…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Coffee and tea are among the world's most popular drinks, containing large quantities of caffeine, a central nervous system stimulant. Many plants have been shown to produce caffeine by usin…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
In 2024 the American Cancer Society (ACS) reported a 78% death rate for pancreatic cancer. The 5-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is 13%. ACS states the only effective method known t…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Organ-on-a-Chip (OOC) devices have the potential to revolutionize drug testing as an ethical, in vitro alternative to traditional methods. However, further research and adoption is limited b…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
In 2024, over 10,000 tons of oil were spilled into the ocean, damaging the environment and costing billions of dollars in mitigation efforts. This project is a continuation of previous resea…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor neuron degeneration. Although biomarkers have been identified, they lack specificity. Combined with…