Meet Polygence Scholars and explore their projects

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Ovia Dushyanthan
Ovia Dushyanthan
Bridgewater-Raritan Middle School
Polygence Scholar 2023

Project: “CTAAC is associated with worse survival due to high metastatic rates and high TP53/KRAS mutations.“

Shreya Duvvuri
Shreya Duvvuri
American High School
Polygence Scholar 2023

Project: “Comorbidity between borderline personality disorder and alcohol use disorder“

Grace Egan
Grace Egan
Polygence Scholar 2025

Project: “The New Era of NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) in College Sports and its Impacts on Traditional Models“

Henry Eisenhardt
Henry Eisenhardt
Lakeridge High School
Polygence Scholar 2022

Project: “Effects of annexation on unemployment: Synthetic control model of the 2014 Crimean annexation“

Islame Elkaideyene
Islame Elkaideyene
Molay youssef
Polygence Scholar 2023

Project: “Antimatter: Storage and Applications“

Tsolmon Enkhjargal
Tsolmon Enkhjargal
Russian Embassy school in Mongolia
Polygence Scholar 2022

Project: “The journey of Cassie into the CRISPR world“

Ahmet Erdemir
Ahmet Erdemir
Polygence Scholar 2024

Project: “Probing the Relationship between High-Mass Star Rotational Velocities and Neutron Star Periods“

Busra Erdogan
Busra Erdogan
Polygence Scholar 2023

Project: “International Student's Impact on US Economy“

William F.
William F.
Polygence Scholar 2024

Project: “The Role of Epigenetic Changes During Biological Aging In Cancer Development“

Xinyu (Nicole) Fan
Xinyu (Nicole) Fan
Polygence Scholar 2025

Project: “Modern Roles, Traditional Frames: Women, Labor, and Generational Change in Japan“

Raynah Fandozzi
Raynah Fandozzi
Plymouth Whitmarsh High School
Polygence Scholar 2021

Project: “The Composition of a Leader“

Meha Farrokhi
Meha Farrokhi
Polygence Scholar 2023

Project: “Exploring the role of CRISPR in cancer immunotherapy“

Alexey Fedorov
Alexey Fedorov
Polygence Scholar 2025

Project: “Mechanisms of neuroplasticity induced by permeable serotonergics“

Gabriella Felix
Gabriella Felix
Carondelet High School
Polygence Scholar 2022

Project: “A proposal to genetically edit the mutated Cardiac Troponin T gene using CRISPR to lower the incidence of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy“

JingChen Feng
JingChen Feng
Polygence Scholar 2024

Project: “Music subscription case study: investigating the behavioral changes of consumers upon subscription price changes“

Sonia Fereidooni
Sonia Fereidooni
Irvine High School
Polygence Scholar 2021

Project: “Evaluation of metronidazole resistance in Bacteroides“

Melissa Frankel
Melissa Frankel
San Dieguito Academy
Polygence Scholar 2022

Project: “How do people under the age of 25 become financially literate and pave a financially stable path for their futures?“

Elizabeth Frisbie
Elizabeth Frisbie
Richard Montgomery High School
Polygence Scholar 2021

Project: “Risk Factors of Alzheimer’s Disease, and the Impact of Socioeconomic Status“

Francesca Froio
Francesca Froio
Lower Merion High School
Polygence Scholar 2021

Project: “hNSCs potential in aiding penetrating traumatic brain injury recovery“

Boxuan Fu
Boxuan Fu
Polygence Scholar 2025

Project: “See shared Google doc“