When he tested his model, it identified two drugs that might dramatically reduce the levels of an inflammation marker implicated in both Alzheimer’s disease and COVID-19.” Noah’s method treats classification as an information retrieval task, similar to the ranking results from a browser search. The press release notes, “Second place and $175,000 went to Noah Getz, 17, of New York, New York, for his research where he adjusted the way computer models identify promising pharmaceutical compounds, which could make the discovery of new drugs faster and less expensive. With fourteen semi-finalists announced for 2021, Bronx Science has produced the greatest number of Regeneron Scholars from 611 high schools - across 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and ten countries - for the fourth year in a row, accounting for 4.67% of all the 300 semi-finalists.Īnd on March 17th, 2021, Regeneron put out a press release which noted that Bronx Science’s Noah Getz ’21 is the 2nd Place Winner in the 80th Regeneron Science Talent Search! In addition to these challenges, college applications are stressful in a normal year, but these seniors accomplished a goal they have strived for since the tenth grade, on top of their COVID-19 college application season. Since all New York City public high schools closed for in person learning due to the Coronavirus pandemic in March of 2020, and were also closed for much of the Fall 2020 semester, several of our Class of 2021 seniors faced another obstacle on top of adjusting their lives in respect to the ongoing pandemic - meeting the annual Regeneron Science Talent Search deadlines amidst lab closures. Here are our Regeneron semifinalists from left to right, top to bottom: Arjun Mazumdar ’21, Noah Getz ’21, Eric Chen ’21, Alexander Chasteen ’21, Maya Chari ’21, Benjamin Chan ’21, Raiya Dhalwala ’21, Julie Lin ’21, Katelyn Lee ’21, Clara Barschdorff ’21, Aerin Mann ’21, Kelly Liu ’21, Allison Pascual ’21 and Michael Batavia ’21.
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