STAR Alum is in Top 300 Scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2020
Sophie Vernik, an alumna of STAR Program in the GSBMS, is in the top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2020.
Sophie Vernik, an alumna of the Summer Trainees in Academic Research (STAR) Program in the Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences, is in the top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2020, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. The 17-year-old from Yorktown High School, in Yorktown Heights, New York, earned the honor for her work this summer on “Spreading Depolarizations as Preconditioning to Post-Stroke Neuronal Death,” under the mentorship of Patric K. Stanton, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and anatomy and of neurology.
The Regeneron Science Talent Search scholars were selected from 1,993 applications received from 659 high schools across 49 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam and eight countries and will be awarded $2,000 each. On January 22, 40 of the 300 scholars will be named Regeneron Science Talent Search finalists and receive an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., from March 5-11, when they will compete for more than $1.8 million in awards provided by Regeneron.
