CMSE Mentee Awarded as Regeneron STS Top 300 Scholar
This week, the spot light falls on Katharine Falzarano - a student from Klein Cain High School, TX for her achievement as a Regeneron STS Top 300 Scholar. Katharine, mentored by Dr. Yuying Xie of the CMSE Department and CMSE PhD student Arash Yunesi via Michigan State University High School Honors Science/Mathematics/Engineering Program (HSHSP), had received the Top 300 Scholar in the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors.
The research project, A Comprehensive Investigation Into Predicting Protein Expression Levels From ScRNA-seq Data Using Deep Learning, delves into the challenge of quantifying and predicting protein abundance, which is crucial for an organism's functions and is expensive to measure using ScRNA-seq data which is more affordable.
Once again, we would like to congratulate Katharine for her ambitious and enourmous efforts, as well as Dr. Xie and Dr. Yunesi for their mentorship and support. We wish her the best and look forward to her future works.
The Regeneron Science Talent Search provides students a national stage to present original research and celebrates the hard work and novel discoveries of young scientists who are bringing a fresh perspective to significant global challenges. Scholars were chosen based on their exceptional promise as STEM leaders demonstrated through the submission of their original, independent research projects, essays and recommendations. The 300 scholars and their schools will be awarded $2,000 each.
