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5 projects
Claire Jiang
Finalist · Regeneron STS 2026
A cell model of juvenile idiopathic arthritis produced by treating rheumatoid arthritis cells with bone morphogenetic protein 4 until they display JIA-like characteristics.
Leon Wang
Finalist · Regeneron STS 2026
Two approved drugs reduced activity in the target pathway and showed protective effects in cultured brain cells.
Seth Nabat
Finalist · Regeneron STS 2026
Neural networks for reconstructing particle collision tracks, built to respect the symmetries of the underlying physics rather than learning them from data.
Jonathan Du
Finalist · Regeneron STS 2026
Work in factorization theory on algebraic systems whose elements may factor in many ways or in none, extending the theory of when factorizations are finite.
Leanne Fan
Finalist · Regeneron STS 2026
Reported tissue regeneration sped up by 95.2% under the treatment condition.