Featured Young Scientist Stories

 OssiningHigh School’s Daniel McQuaid has turned a devastating experience into a positive contribution.”In my freshman year of high school, my cousin died of lung cancer, so that kind of sparked my interest in the field of science research,” the 17-year-old shared. That was three years ago and now McQuaid, a senior, […]

Vickram Gidwani, a junior at Horace Mann High School in the Bronx, N.Y., along with Blake Smith, a senior at Oceanside High School in Oceanside, N.Y., won the third prize for their biochemistry project in the team competition at the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. They will split […]

NEW YORK – Although the research was complex, the goal for one Long Island teenager was simple – to help treat patients with lung cancer. Seventeen-year-old Blake Smith, an Oceanside High School senior, received $15,000 in scholarship money and high honors after Smith, along with his teammate, came in fourth place […]

OSSINING, N.Y. – Ossining High School senior Daniel McQuaid lost a cousin to cancer several years ago. This weekend, the 17-year-old is hoping his scientific research on a compound that fights cancer will garner him national attention at a regional science research competition at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Daniel […]

Deborah & Dennis Smith We vividly recall the day when Blake came home from his interview with Dr. Narla at Mount Sinai School of Medicine for a possible summer internship in 2010 through his high school’s science research program. From the interview alone, Blake was so impressed with Dr. Narla’s […]

Blake Smith, Vickram Gidwani $30,000 Oceanside High School, Oceanside, New York, and Horace Mann High School, Bronx, New York Using novel small molecule derivatives to therapeutically modulate erlotinib-resistant lung adenocarcinoma – Biochemistry MENTOR: Dr. Goutham Narla, Mount Sinai School of Medicine “Our biochemistry project has the potential to regress the […]