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This is so inspiring! Angela Zhang, a 17-year-old from California has just landed a $100,000 scholarship from the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. It was awarded to Angela for her research in utilizing nanotechnology to potentially eradicate cancer stem cells and leave healthy cells intact. Zhang logged almost 1000 hours in the lab designing a gold and iron oxide-based nanoparticle to target cancer stem cells.

One of the competition judges compared Zhang’s microscopic nanoparticle to a “Swiss Army knife of cancer treatment” that can seek out cancer cells and then destroy them.

Amazing work!

For more info on the competition and on Angela’s work, click here and here.