Teen Whiz Kids Bag $630,000 in Prizes at Intel Science Fair

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 20:30 in Psychology & Sociology

A 17-year-old from California took home $100,000 in prize money as winner of the Intel Science Talent Search for his work on anti-flu drugs.Eric Chen used computer models to pin down a potential class of drugs that would work by tripping up endonucleases, enzymes that viruses use to multiply.    

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