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14 Year Old Indian American, Anika Chebrolu, Developing A Potential Cure For trump’s COVID Plague
During the past four years there have been few topics that have not been politicized. Sex and its increasing variations, always controversial, economics, infrastructure are also discussed, forests, scrublands, and drought and the unwillingness to admit humankind’s negative effects on them, and a gaggle of others.
Education has its advocates and its haters, but this young woman shows, regardless of our school system’s many built-in inadequacies, the truly intelligent can overcome the endless obstacles put in their way and become successful.
Scientists and researchers are working day and night to develop a vaccine or possible cure for the COVID-19 plague the impeached president trump is permitting to go unchecked, infecting millions of Americans and killing hundreds-of-thousands.
But professional scientific minds are not alone in seeking a cure for the impeached president trump’s COVID-19 plague, 14-year-old Indian American, Anika Chebrolu, a middle school student, just won an award of $25,000 for research related to a potential cure for COVID-19.
Miss Chebrolu, from Frisco, Texas, won the prestigious 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her efforts to develop a novel antiviral drug as a cure for the coronavirus pandemic. According to the 3M Young Scientist Challenge website, Chebrolu did this by using an in-silico methodology to develop a lead molecule that selectively binds to the Spike protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The challenge created by 3M in partnership with Discovery Communications aspires to create a new generation of problem-solvers by encouraging students in grades 5-8 to share their discoveries.
Miss Chebrolu stated, “I developed this molecule that can bind to a certain protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This protein by binding to it will stop the function of the protein.” Her hopes are to one day be a medical researcher and professor. She used a number of computer programs to identify how and where the molecule would bind to the virus.
While Chebrolu initially began her project to find a cure for winter influenza, she changed the direction amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “I was drawn towards finding effective cures for influenza disease after a severe bout of the infection last year,” the teenager explained. "I would like to learn more from 3M scientists to pursue my drug development and with their help, would like to conduct in-vitro and in-vivo testing of my lead drug candidate.”
Under the guidance of 3M Scientist Dr. Mahfuza Ali, another woman of color, the young student was able to perfect her ideas through the scientific method. Chebrolu gained the opportunity to work with Dr. Ali after being awarded an exclusive mentorship for being one of the 10 finalists of the challenge. "With the help of my mentor Dr. Mahfuza Ali, I switched topics and targeted the SARS-CoV-2 virus because of the immense impact it's made in the world in less than a year," Chebrolu said.
Chebrolu’s drive and potential for finding a cure impressed not only Dr. Ali, who called her enthusiasm and tenacity “amazing,” but also Dr. Cindy Moss, a judge for the challenge. Chebrolu said she was inspired to find potential cures to viruses after learning about the 1918 flu pandemic and finding out how many people die every year in the United States despite annual vaccinations and anti-influenza drugs on the market.
The young scientist said that her research and discovered method “reflects the collective hopes to end this pandemic” as individuals like herself hope to go back to their normal lives and that while winning this award is an honor, her work is not done. Chebrolu shared that her next goal is to work alongside scientists and researchers to "control the morbidity and mortality" of the pandemic by developing her findings into an actual cure for the virus. "My effort to find a lead compound to bind to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus this summer may appear to be a drop in the ocean, but still adds to all these efforts," she said. "How I develop this molecule further with the help of virologists and drug development specialists will determine the success of these efforts."
While the top prize of the challenge was won by Miss Chebrolu, others winners included Laasya Acharya, a seventh-grader, Ekansh Mittal, an eighth-grader, Harsha Pillarisetti, an eighth-grader, Samhita Pokkunuri, a seventh-grader, Samvrit Rao, a seventh-grader, Xavier Baquero-Iglesias, a seventh-grader, Rithvik Ijju, an eighth-grader, Kyle Tianshi, an eighth-grader, and Sophia Weiner, an eighth-grader.
It will be scientific minds like these that pull the impeached president trump’s fat a$$ out of the fire for his continuing incompetence dealing with COVID-19. The many white supremacists posting on these message boards should note, only two of these brilliant students were not Asian-American, one is Hispanic, and the only white student among the winners, is a young lady.
The Republican-caused neglect of our nation’s public school system has, for decades, satisfied the contempt conservatives and many centrists hold for education and learned professionals. But, if white people would actually open their eyes, they would realize it is people if color who refuse to allow an inferior system to interfere with their acquisition of knowledge. Most white kids think learning the bare basics needed to pass the standard tests is great, but, as the 3M Challenge proves, nationwide, it is primarily Asian-American students who have the inner drive to tear knowledge from a system unwilling to give it freely.
The white supremacists are much too ignorant to understand how their hatred of the liberals’ demands for better public schools, and their decades of Republican victories thwarting the liberals’ efforts, will soon make the white race in the United States too stupid to compete with the students-of-color who, have the ambition and drive to gain the knowledge and skills necessary for the high-paying jobs now and in the future.
That inherent knowledge of all things, which most white conservatives believe they possess, might make them so smart they can ignore the warnings given by doctors, scientists, economists, climate experts, etc., but it will be young people like Anika Chebrolu and the other winners of the 3M Challenge leading in the future. The white conservatives’ children, with the bare basics needed to pass the standard tests, coupled with the white conservatives’ inherent knowledge of all things, at best, they’ll be the janitors, do landscape maintenance, and other unskilled labor. At least, until other 3M Challenge winners develop computer-controlled, autonomous machines to do those jobs.
After that, it’s anyone’s guess what the minimally educated, unskilled Americans will be doing.
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14 Year Old Indian American, Anika Chebrolu, Developing A Potential Cure For trump’s COVID Plague
During the past four years there have been few topics that have not been politicized. Sex and its increasing variations, always controversial, economics, infrastructure are also discussed, forests, scrublands, and drought and the unwillingness to admit humankind’s negative effects on them, and a gaggle of others.
Education has its advocates and its haters, but this young woman shows, regardless of our school system’s many built-in inadequacies, the truly intelligent can overcome the endless obstacles put in their way and become successful.
Scientists and researchers are working day and night to develop a vaccine or possible cure for the COVID-19 plague the impeached president trump is permitting to go unchecked, infecting millions of Americans and killing hundreds-of-thousands.
But professional scientific minds are not alone in seeking a cure for the impeached president trump’s COVID-19 plague, 14-year-old Indian American, Anika Chebrolu, a middle school student, just won an award of $25,000 for research related to a potential cure for COVID-19.
Miss Chebrolu, from Frisco, Texas, won the prestigious 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her efforts to develop a novel antiviral drug as a cure for the coronavirus pandemic. According to the 3M Young Scientist Challenge website, Chebrolu did this by using an in-silico methodology to develop a lead molecule that selectively binds to the Spike protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The challenge created by 3M in partnership with Discovery Communications aspires to create a new generation of problem-solvers by encouraging students in grades 5-8 to share their discoveries.
Miss Chebrolu stated, “I developed this molecule that can bind to a certain protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This protein by binding to it will stop the function of the protein.” Her hopes are to one day be a medical researcher and professor. She used a number of computer programs to identify how and where the molecule would bind to the virus.
While Chebrolu initially began her project to find a cure for winter influenza, she changed the direction amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “I was drawn towards finding effective cures for influenza disease after a severe bout of the infection last year,” the teenager explained. "I would like to learn more from 3M scientists to pursue my drug development and with their help, would like to conduct in-vitro and in-vivo testing of my lead drug candidate.”
Under the guidance of 3M Scientist Dr. Mahfuza Ali, another woman of color, the young student was able to perfect her ideas through the scientific method. Chebrolu gained the opportunity to work with Dr. Ali after being awarded an exclusive mentorship for being one of the 10 finalists of the challenge. "With the help of my mentor Dr. Mahfuza Ali, I switched topics and targeted the SARS-CoV-2 virus because of the immense impact it's made in the world in less than a year," Chebrolu said.
Chebrolu’s drive and potential for finding a cure impressed not only Dr. Ali, who called her enthusiasm and tenacity “amazing,” but also Dr. Cindy Moss, a judge for the challenge. Chebrolu said she was inspired to find potential cures to viruses after learning about the 1918 flu pandemic and finding out how many people die every year in the United States despite annual vaccinations and anti-influenza drugs on the market.
The young scientist said that her research and discovered method “reflects the collective hopes to end this pandemic” as individuals like herself hope to go back to their normal lives and that while winning this award is an honor, her work is not done. Chebrolu shared that her next goal is to work alongside scientists and researchers to "control the morbidity and mortality" of the pandemic by developing her findings into an actual cure for the virus. "My effort to find a lead compound to bind to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus this summer may appear to be a drop in the ocean, but still adds to all these efforts," she said. "How I develop this molecule further with the help of virologists and drug development specialists will determine the success of these efforts."
While the top prize of the challenge was won by Miss Chebrolu, others winners included Laasya Acharya, a seventh-grader, Ekansh Mittal, an eighth-grader, Harsha Pillarisetti, an eighth-grader, Samhita Pokkunuri, a seventh-grader, Samvrit Rao, a seventh-grader, Xavier Baquero-Iglesias, a seventh-grader, Rithvik Ijju, an eighth-grader, Kyle Tianshi, an eighth-grader, and Sophia Weiner, an eighth-grader.
It will be scientific minds like these that pull the impeached president trump’s fat a$$ out of the fire for his continuing incompetence dealing with COVID-19. The many white supremacists posting on these message boards should note, only two of these brilliant students were not Asian-American, one is Hispanic, and the only white student among the winners, is a young lady.
The Republican-caused neglect of our nation’s public school system has, for decades, satisfied the contempt conservatives and many centrists hold for education and learned professionals. But, if white people would actually open their eyes, they would realize it is people if color who refuse to allow an inferior system to interfere with their acquisition of knowledge. Most white kids think learning the bare basics needed to pass the standard tests is great, but, as the 3M Challenge proves, nationwide, it is primarily Asian-American students who have the inner drive to tear knowledge from a system unwilling to give it freely.
The white supremacists are much too ignorant to understand how their hatred of the liberals’ demands for better public schools, and their decades of Republican victories thwarting the liberals’ efforts, will soon make the white race in the United States too stupid to compete with the students-of-color who, have the ambition and drive to gain the knowledge and skills necessary for the high-paying jobs now and in the future.
That inherent knowledge of all things, which most white conservatives believe they possess, might make them so smart they can ignore the warnings given by doctors, scientists, economists, climate experts, etc., but it will be young people like Anika Chebrolu and the other winners of the 3M Challenge leading in the future. The white conservatives’ children, with the bare basics needed to pass the standard tests, coupled with the white conservatives’ inherent knowledge of all things, at best, they’ll be the janitors, do landscape maintenance, and other unskilled labor. At least, until other 3M Challenge winners develop computer-controlled, autonomous machines to do those jobs.
After that, it’s anyone’s guess what the minimally educated, unskilled Americans will be doing.
Texas Indian American Teen Anika Chebrolu Wins 2020 Young Scientist Challenge, Named ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’
3M, in partnership with Discovery Education, Oct. 14 announced that Indian American student Anika Chebrolu won the 2020 Young Scientist Challenge competition.
Eighth grader Anika Chebrolu wins 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her work on COVID-19 - Starting young
According to a report by PTI, a 14-year-old Indian-American girl has won a USD 25,000 young scientist challenge for a discovery that could provide a potential treatment for COVID-19. Anika Chebrolu, an eighth grader from Frisco in Texas, won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, regarded as the US'...
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