Top Young Scientists From Around The World Awarded $4 Million In Scholarships

Top Young Scientists From Around The World Awarded $4 Million In Scholarships

Three young scientists each received a $50,000 Intel Foundation Young Scientist Scholarship today by taking top honors at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) 2006, presented by Agilent Technologies.

Madhavi Gavini of Starkville, Miss.; Meredith MacGregor of Boulder, Colo.; and Hannah Wolf of Allentown, Pa., excelled among a record-setting, worldwide pool of 1,482 competitors from 47 countries, regions and territories, setting the bar for future scientific research in three disciplines.

Gavini, 16, discovered a novel method to destroy a common and deadly infectious bacterium – pseudomonas aeruginosa – that causes secondary infections that often lead to death in patients with compromised immune systems, such as those with cancer, AIDS and serious burns.

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