Indian-American teen wins $25K for Covid cure work
Houston, October 19 A 14-year-old Indian-American girl has won a US $25,000 young scientist challenge for a discovery that could provide a potential treatment for Covid-19. Anika Chebrolu, an eighth grader from Frisco in Texas, won the 3M Young Scientist...
Updated At : 12:57 PM Oct 20, 2020 IST
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Houston, October 19
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A 14-year-old Indian-American girl has won a US $25,000 young scientist challenge for a discovery that could provide a potential treatment for Covid-19. Anika Chebrolu, an eighth grader from Frisco in Texas, won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, regarded as the US’ premier middle school science competition, for her work using in-silico methodology for drug discovery to find a molecule that can selectively bind to the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 virus in an attempt to find a cure for the virus, as per 3M Challenge. PTI
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