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 5101–5130
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The recent COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has threatened billions of lives across the globe and demands immediate attention. Although vaccines have recently started deployment, there…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Ebola virus disease (EVD) causes hemorrhagic fever infection with a mortality rate of up to 90%. Current treatments, mostly experimental, require medical equipment and facilities often not a…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Ovarian cancer, lung cancer, and follicular lymphoma are collectively attributed to 2.8 million deaths annually with an average treatment cost of $212,000. A prevalent mutation in the human…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Klebsiella pneumoniae exhibits among the highest rates of antibiotic resistance and is currently the main cause of carbapenem resistant infections, yet there are no clinically effective trea…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Cancers and treatments are very diverse, often resulting in mixed patient outcomes: predicting survival early may improve prognosis. MRI is favorable for evaluating treatment efficacy, but c…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease causing deterioration of neurons in the brain, leading to dementia and eventual death. Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s conventionally consists of a comb…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
This project aims to develop a novel vaccine against the yellow fever virus using an mRNA platform. Currently, the vaccine used for the prevention of Yellow Fever is based on a live, attenua…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Unilateral incompatibility (UI) occurs in an interspecific cross when the flower pistil terminates pollen tube formation prematurely before fertilization. UI occurs in one direction, the opp…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Recent research in the treatment and prevention of disease has become dominated by a relatively new and revolutionary technique: mRNA. Although initially used to develop cancer prophylactics…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
Microgreens have the potential to play a significant role in the intake of vegetables by children, by members of communities with restricted access to fresh vegetables, and are even being co…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Optimal control for exoskeletons is unknown. Human-in-the-Loop Optimization (HiLO), an automated process that uses biological signals to tune controllers. The most used biological signal use…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
There are thousands of people who have movement disabilities and have difficulty with simple tasks such as carrying a grocery bag or pushing a door open. The muscle controlled exoskeleton is…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Harmony and dissonance are two general classifications of sound heard when listening to musical chords. Except for electronically generated pure tones, every note has overtones which are fai…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
Due to the pandemic, this year has seen high levels of unemployment and job loss. This project seeks to use natural language processing techniques to analyze first person tweets disclosing j…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
In 2020, our world entered a new normal that includes virtual school, mask wearing and voluntary quarantines. The reason? SARS-Cov-2: COVID-19. To go back to ‘in-person’ safely, precautions…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
Dengue fever is a widespread mosquito-borne disease, prevalent in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, that affects approximately 400 million people each year. The prevention of dengue fever is t…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microplastics are a rapidly emerging contaminant in water sources. California is in the process of adopting a standardized testing method to monitor microplastics in drinking water (Bill SB1…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Targeted therapies for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) have low success rates in clinical trials and fail to target specific disease-causing mutations, partially due to the exclusive use of ge…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The biological brain can do complex visual processing, object recognition, fine motor tasks, and more, all using very little energy. A traditional computer programmed to do these things woul…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
For millennia, humanity has wondered if there might be other life present in the universe. Today, we have the technological capabilities to begin to understand what conditions allow for life…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Quantifying the nonexponential relaxation of supercooled liquids in terms of thermodynamics is a major open question in physical chemistry. The Adam-Gibbs model expresses the relaxation time…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with over 10 million people suffering from it. Currently, diagnosis of PD is often late and inaccurate ~ 25% of the time,…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
A large intake of nitrates can cause different health problems but, so can too little. The main source of digested nitrates come from green vegetables. One main factor that contributes to th…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems
One deadly aspect of COVID-19 is that those infected can often be contagious before they exhibit overt symptoms. Current detection methods are either not reliable or require significant huma…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Cardiovascular monitoring at home is highly desirable for managing diseases such as heart failure. Existing technologies are inconvenient, too costly, and/or incapable of acquiring clinicall…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Muons are elementary particles produced by cosmic radiation that have a very consistent flux, making them useful for experimentation. Muons have been used in experiments to detect magma flow…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Artificial neural networks are biologically inspired computational structures that are capable of learning how to perform tasks heuristically. They derive this ability by imitating the struc…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The current methods for drug development against a target disease are not cost-effective. The process is not efficient and has a high failure rate. It can take up to 12 years to design, crea…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Safe and precise robot-assisted intervention using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance requires motors that are fully MRI-compatible using no metallic or magnetic materials to ensure n…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Third Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a movement disorder with classical motor impairments in PD patients including akinesia, resting tremor, and muscle rigidity. The pathological hallmark of PD is th…