Indian-American teen bags prestigious science talent search award

 

Washington: An Indian-American teen from Michigan has won the prestigious science talent search award for high school students in the United States.

Neel Moudgal, 17, of Saline, Michigan, will receive the USD 250,000 award in the 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search for creating a computer model that can rapidly and reliably predict the structure of ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules using only easily accessible data.

He believes it will make it easier to diagnose and treat certain diseases.