11705 projects whose affiliated fair was here, most recently in 2026.
ISEF records a state or province for some finalists and not others, so these counts do not add up to the country total.
11705 projects · showing 481–510
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for 85% of all lung cancers and can develop resistance to current therapies. This creates an urgent need for more effective and targeted treatment…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
Rising fertilizer costs have increased interest in sustainable methods for improving soil fertility. This project investigated whether Dermestid beetles could increase soil microbiomass by a…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, is a neurodevelopmental disorder that can cause significant behavioral and social challenges. The prevalence of ASD has risen over the past two decades, ref…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Solid tumors represent approximately 90% of adult human cancers and arise from the uncontrolled growth of cells in tissues or organs. Recently, immunotherapy that boosts the immune system's…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
The bacterium Vibrio cholerae has evolved unipolar sheathed flagellum as the main organelle to drive motility and facilitate biofilm formation and colonization in host cells although the und…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In trauma and mass casualty events, hemorrhage remains a leading cause of preventable death as definitive car is often delayed by limited access to safe, compatible donor blood. Deployment o…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
Apis mellifera are essential pollinators, contributing to 80% of global food crop pollination and $183 billion annually to the global economy. However, around 40–50% of hives collapse annual…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Standard R-CHOP chemotherapy leaves many patients with relapsed or refractory disease, and salvage p…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by heterogeneous cognitive decline, including episodic memory loss, semantic impairment, and visuospatial d…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
Arithmetic performance depends on the neural processing across distinct brain regions. This study investigates whether clustering coefficients (CCs), a graph theory metric for centrality, re…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal cancer with a 90% mortality rate. Standard treatments such as surgery and chemotherapy show high recurrence rates of ~85% due to PD…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
Paralysis afflicts 15.4 million people globally, growing by 0.5 million annually, with an additional 2.5 million Americans experiencing severe arm mobility impairment, with prosthetics costi…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
My project is a Chesapeake Bay case study simulation built using an existing Lagrangian tracking model, driven by real National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) current and wind da…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Passwords are failing. Stolen credentials are now responsible for over 88% of online attacks, and systems are unable to detect when an attacker bypasses a login screen or accesses an unatten…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Currently 250,000 to 390,000 Americans are estimated to live with a spinal cord injury. United Spinal Association (2025) states that the number grows by 18,000 approximately every year. That…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
Two - qubit gates drive the power of quantum circuits, but finding new universal gates remains challenging. In this study, we developed an evolutionary computational framework to systematica…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Oral cancer therapeutics often fail due to drug degradation within the gastrointestinal tract before systemic absorption. This study evaluated the gastrointestinal stability of a carbon nano…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Growing up in Iraq, infrastructure gaps and an unstable grid cause persistent power outages that directly impact quality of life. To meet demands, these regions tend to rely on environmental…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 2 (mTORC2) regulates cell motility and is commonly assessed by AKT phosphorylation at S473. It remains unclear whether distinct chemoattractants p…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
Filamentous fungi offer promising solutions for upcycling industrial food byproducts. Neurospora intermedia, used for centuries in Western Java to ferment red oncom from a byproduct of soy m…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
This project aimed to produce a Type II superconductor through substitution doping of Zirconium (Zr) into the crystalline structure of Tantalum Chromium Phosphorus (TaCrP), which has never b…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Cancer genomic alterations often create unique vulnerabilities that can be exploited for precise treatment. Inhibitors exploiting synthetic lethal relationships have recently shown clinical…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
Genetic variation plays a key role in individual patient outcomes, particularly with age due to physical vulnerability. Rho1 is a gene in Drosophila melanogaster encoding proteins in the fam…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) remains the most aggressive primary brain tumor, with a median survival of 12–15 months despite multimodal therapy. Identifying compounds that selectively induc…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
Benzodiazepines and antidepressants are used primarily in the treatment of anxiety, yet often come with negative side effects. Selank is an anxiolytic peptide approved for usage in Russia an…
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
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Americans use an average of 1.6 straws per day, PFAS, are present in both plastic and paper straws, contributing to the increased health issues related to microplastics and PFAS. Several stu…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fragrance products have been on the rise in popularity recently. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are toxic airborne chemicals, have shown to be most prominent in the product's ingre…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Moyle (1944) found that lakes with high sulfate levels do not contain wild rice. In wetland soil with low oxygen concentrations, bacteria convert sulfate from municipal or industrial sources…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Three-dimensional (3D) cell culture is an emerging technique that allows cells to grow in a way that more closely resembles how they exist in the body. Unlike traditional two-dimensional (2D…