2016-17 Regeneron STS Competition Semifinalists / Finalists

This year, BCA is happy to announce that eight students were selected as semifinalists in the Regeneron STS Competition. These students include:

• Indrani Das - Exosensomal miR-124a: Novel Translational Astrocyte Repair in Reactive Astrogliosis in vitro
  Academy for Medical Science Technology, Hackensack, NJ

  Jacy Fang - The Living Drug: A Novel Method of Inducing Stem-Like Memory T Cells from Antigen-Experienced Cells for CAR-T Immunotherapy
  Academy for Medical Science Technology, Hackensack, NJ

  Andrew Kevin Fong - FBXO-25: A Prognostic Indicator of Effective Cancer Treatment
  Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Hackensack, NJ

  Sabrina Josefina Gjerswold-Selleck - The Effect of hnRNPM on EMT and Breast Cancer Metastasis
  Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Hackensack, NJ

  Enoch Jiang - Glutamine Addiction: An Achilles Heel for Myc-Overexpressing Breast Cancer
  Academy for Business & Finance, Hackensack, NJ

  Jiwoo Lee - The "Smart Cancer Drug": Targeting Cancer's Achilles' Heel with Conditional CRISPR/Cas9
  Academy for Medical Science Technology, Hackensack, NJ

  Christina Ping - Photosynthetic Production of Thyroglobulin from Inter-Kingdom Thyroid-Algae Hybrid Cells
  Academy for Medical Science Technology, Hackensack, NJ

  Varun Ramanan Subramaniam - A Novel in vitro Approach to Inducing Oxidative Stress Using UV Radiation in Neuronal Cells and Its Protection by Curcumin
  Academy for Medical Science Technology, Hackensack, NJ

BCA is also happy to announce that two of these semifinalists, Indrani Das and Jacy Fang, were selected as Finalists, and will compete in March in the Regeneron STS Finals in Washington, DC. 

Congratulations to all of our students!

Semifinalists Press Release

Finalists Press Release

Article about our Finalists on NorthJersey.com