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| My name is Nikko-Johan Lee. I am a grade 12 student attending St. Mary's High School in Calgary, Alberta. I am a consistent honour student and am working towards a diploma in piano performance. I enjoy ice hockey and have been playing as a goalie since age 8. As a certified ice-hockey referee, I take pride in maintaining safety and order among players and coaches. Off ice, I offer free tutoring in math and physics to friends. As a volunteer for an annual Calgary Health Fair through a Foundation that awarded me a Scholarship for Academic Excellence, I engage in activities that promote health care. Together with my family’s support for breast cancer research, I developed my passion for health research and desire to pursue a degree in medicine. I became aware of the need to develop effective treatments for cancer. Therefore, I grabbed the opportunity to perform breast cancer research at the University of Calgary. I collected some exciting data and wish to continue working on my project and hopefully, publish a paper. For students considering to do a project, I suggest that they pursue something that they find exciting. Fascination can bring out extraordinary results. |
| Nikko-Johan Lee
A Novel Strategy for Preferential Killing of Breast Cancer Cells
| Défi: | Découverte | | Catégorie: | Sénior | | Région: | Calgary Youth | | Ville: | Calgary, AB | | École: | St. Mary's High School | | Sommaire: | Treating breast cancer is still a challenge to this day. My goal is to determine whether the protein, calsyntenin-3, could be targeted to kill breast cancer cells. By depleting calsyntenin-3 from cancer cells, I found that I could increase stress levels and induce death of these cells. Therefore, elimination of calsyntenin-3 could potentially be used as a new strategy to treat breast cancer. |
| Prix | Valeur | Prix d'excellence - Sénior
Médaille d'argent
Sponsor: Sciences jeunesse Canada | | Prix du défi - Découverte
Sénior
Sponsor: Sciences jeunesse Canada | | Bourses de l’Université Carleton
Médaillé d'argent, sénior - Bourse d'admission de 2 000 $
Sponsor: Université Carleton | 2 000,00 $ | Bourses d'admission de la Faculté des sciences de l’Université Dalhousie
Médaillé d’argent, sénior - Bourse d'admission de 2 500 $
Sponsor: Université Dalhousie, Faculté des sciences | 2 500,00 $ | Prix d'admission en sciences de UBC (Vancouver)
Médaillé d’argent, sénior - Bourse d'admission de 2 000 $
Sponsor: The University of British Columbia (Vancouver) | 2 000,00 $ | Bourse d'admission de l'Université d'Ottawa
Médaillé d’argent, sénior - Bourse d'admission de 2 000 $
Sponsor: Université d'Ottawa | 2 000,00 $ | Bourse d’études de Western University
Médaillé d’argent - Bourse d'admission de 2 000 $
Sponsor: Université Western | 2 000,00 $ | | Total | 10 500,00 $ | |
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