Vivek Bhupatiraju and Sanjana Das of Lexington High School, MA  along with Amit Ramachandran and Shobhita Sundaram of Greewich HS, CT named semifinalists in The Regeneron Science Talent Search (Regeneron STS). The Regeneron Science Talent Search (Regeneron STS) is the nation's most prestigious pre-college science competition. Alumni of STS have made extraordinary contributions to science and hold more than 100 of the world's most coveted science and math honors, including the Nobel Prize and National Medal of Science. Annually, students entering the Regeneron STS compete for more than $3.1 million in awards.

Each scholar, selected from 1,818 entrants, receives a $2,000 award with an additional $2,000 going to his or her respective school, resulting in $1.2 million in total scholar awards from Regeneron. The 40 finalists chosen to compete in Washington, D.C in March will be announced on January 23.  

The Society for Science and the Public Jan. 9 announced the 300 semifinalists of the 2018 Regeneron Science Talent Search, with at least 70, or nearly 25 percent, of the high school students selected being Indian American or South Asian American.

The semifinalists from New England include:

Greenwich High School, CT

Ramachandran, Amit, 17 

Simple Gold Nanoparticle-based Colorimetric Detection of Escherichia coli in a Tap Water Matrix via Microfluidic Chip Assay 

Sundaram, Shobhita, 17 

Detection of Premalignant Pancreatic Cancer via Computational Analysis of Serum Proteomic Profiles

Lexington High School, MA

Bhupatiraju, Vivek, 16 

On the Development of Bandwidth Efficient Append-Only Authenticated Dictionaries 

Das, Sanjna, 17 

Effects of ISL and [6]-Gingerol on Invasive Bladder Cancer Cells