A 17-year-old Edmonton high school student has won top honours at an international science competition for her project that examinesElizabeth Chen, a Grade 12 student at Old Scona Academic School, was awarded a first prize at theTo qualify for the competition in Belgium, Chen first had to win at regional and national levels.She said meeting all the people involved was the best part of the week.
“I would do the run every single year and I would knock on doors and fundraise and in my head there was always this question: ‘OK, why don’t we have a cure for cancer? It doesn’t make sense. I’m knocking on doors. We’re raising so much money, but we don’t have a cure.'” She decided to focus on acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the leading type of cancer in children. Conventional cancer treatments, Chen said, can be really hard on the body.
,” she continued. “After those CAR T-cells go into that patient’s body, how are they going to respond, and can we predict that, and can we predict what kind of treatments we can use?”All her work was computational, using data from a clinical trial.“I guess if I get into the nitty gritty, it’s more about candidate genetic biomarkers. These are genes that are highly correlated with a certain condition and once you have those, you can kind of predict things.
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