Regeneron Science Talent Search 2024: See Westchester's 26 high school semifinalists
The country's oldest math and science competition for high school seniors announced its semifinalists Wednesday, which included 26 seniors from Westchester.
The 26 Westchester students are among 300 from the U.S. and China who will receive $2,000 from the Regeneron Science Talent Search's 2024 contest for research projects. Students' schools will also receive $2,000 per student.
Fourteen districts in Westchester had semifinalists, called "scholars" by Regeneron. The Ossining and Byram Hills districts, which have two of the most established and successful science research programs in New York, led the way with five and four, respectively.
The competition will continue Jan. 24, when the top 40 finalists will be announced. On March 12, the top research projects will be selected.
This year projects ranged from artificial intelligence to climate change prevention. The top five categories were: environmental science, medicine and health, cellular and molecular biology, computational biology and behavioral and social sciences.
Here are the semifinalists from Westchester and their projects.
Ardsley High School
Kevin Khitrov: Autophagy in Non-Cell Autonomous Regulation of Adipogenesis
Briarcliff High School
Gautam Gupta: Predicting Future Internal Migration Patterns Within the United States Resulting from Shifts in Temperature and Precipitation
Rashmi Narayanan: Understanding Pathological Structures of Pyroglutamate Modified Amyloid-β (Aβ) in Alzheimer's Disease
Edmund Tsou: Language Models as Catalysts in EEG-Based BCI Speller Systems: A Low-Cost Solution for Paralyzed Patients
Byram Hills High School
Lily Anchin: Investigating the immunophenotypic differences among T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients of distinct subtype, sex, and race in efforts to improve chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy
Benjamin Levy: Using Machine Learning to Uncover Hidden Linguistic Differences within Online Mental Health Disclosures between Men and Women
Jonathan Manowitz: The use of what remains: Repurposing harvest waste from Romaine lettuce cultivation for cell-based meat production
Daniel Ndocaj: Investigating the Potential of Optically Tunable Metasurfaces for Enhanced Detection of Fluorescent Molecules
Charles E. Gorton High School, Yonkers
Rania Khan: Combined Sewer Overflow Neutralizing Agent Sodium Hypochlorite (NaOCl) Ramifications on the Vitality of the Tetraselmis Population within the Hudson River
Edgemont High School
Isabella Jabbour: Insights into Cellular Senescence: p16 and p21 Dynamics in Healthy Aging Spinal Cord Tissues
Jiahe Liu: Forecasting Post-Wildfire Vegetation Recovery in California Using a Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Tensor Regression Network
Harrison High School
Lucia Lammers: Colorimetric and Spectroscopic Analysis of Textiles Dyed with Local Invasive Plants Species and Waste-derived Mordants
Stella Perini: Protective Effects of Resveratrol Following Repetitive Head Injury in Wild Type and Amyloid β42 Drosophila Melanogaster
Hastings High School
Justin Baldassarre: STING-Rich Ciliated Cells Protect the Fallopian Tube from Early Transformation in the Development of Ovarian Cancer
Jacob Goldman-Wetzler: Investigating the Impact of Optimal Flashcard Creation Principles on Memory
Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua
Anwen Cao: An Exploration of mTOR in Epstein-Barr Virus: Evaluating the Effect of EBV Deubiquitinating Enzyme BPLF1 on mTOR Complex 1 and 2
Irvington High School
Christopher Zorn: The Role of MYC in RET Fusion Tumorigenesis and RET Inhibitor Resistance
Mamaroneck High School
Noah Sodickson: In Search of Decay: An Analysis of the Transit Times of Hot Jupiters
Ossining High School
Thomas Cong: Overlooked covariates in metabolite abundance levels: Systematically quantifying the information overlap between gene expression and metabolism across multiple cancer types
Aiden Fel: Deficiency of Tetrahydrobiopterin Impairs Cognition in Alzheimer’s Disease and in Mild Cognitive Impairment
Elena Prisament: Novel Annotations in Machine Translation Facilitate Language Acquisition: A Proof-of-Concept Study
Anabel Reed: Musical Training Decreases Cognitive Workload During Hearing-in-Noise Tasks Among Adolescents
Shae Shandroff: The Short- and Long-Term Migratory Patterns of Young-of-Year Shortfin Mako Sharks (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the Western North Atlantic with Implications for a Localized Nursery Area
Pelham Memorial High School
Aadita Roy: Pro-Inflammatory Macrophages Induce Pyroptotic Death of BETA-cell; Modeling Macrophage-Mediated Pancreatic Endocrine BETA-Cell Damage Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Vascularized Macrophage-Islet Organoids
Sleepy Hollow High School
Joseph Weitzen: Discovery and Validation of Tumor-Specific and Tumor-Associated HLA-Presented Peptides in Glioblastoma for use in Immunotherapeutics
Yorktown High School
Eric Song: A Framework for Ransomware Detection and Mitigation
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This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Regeneron Science contest semifinalists include 26 from Westchester
