Indian American Nithin Reddy Tumma wins top $100,000 prize in US science talent search
Saturday, 17/03/2012
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-03-14/news/31168777_1_cancer-cells-breast-cancer-cancer-treatment
Indian American teenager Nithin Reddy Tumma has won a whopping $100,000 prize in the prestigious Intel Science Talent competition for his research on devising a more effective and less toxic breast cancer treatment.
Tumma, 17, from Michigan won the top honours in the competition that also saw two other Indian Americans - Neel Patel from Florida and Anirudh Prabhu from Indiana - finding a place in the top 10.