Indian-American Kids Showcase Their Inventions At White House Science Fair
Monday, 23 March 2015, 17:03 IST
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Anvita Gupta, 17, Scottsdale, Arizona:

Anvita Gupta used machine learning to "teach" a computer to identify potential new drugs for cancer, tuberculosis, and Ebola.

She combined artificial intelligence techniques, 3D visualization and biomimicry to systematically discover which drugs might inhibit the interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins with other proteins.

These proteins make up 70 percent of all cancer proteins and are mutated in tuberculosis and Ebola.

She's also an advocate for getting more girls in science fields - starting an after-school computer science group to teach middle school girls programming and app development. Forty girls enrolled the first year.

Anvita's research earned her Third Place Medal of Distinction for Global Good at the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search.

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Source: IANS