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Young scientists discover Covid-19 healing therapy, pocketing hundreds of millions of prizes

ILLUSTRATION. Illustration of Covid-19 patient treatment therapy. Ritzau Scanpix / via REUTERS

Source: Kompas.com | Editor: Barratut Taqiyyah Rafie

KONTAN.CO.ID – JAKARTA. A young girl in the United States has attracted worldwide attention. She is Anika Chebrolu, a 14 year old girl who managed to find a potential therapy for patients infected with Covid-19 and won hundreds of millions of money.

Thanks to her success, this girl from Frisco, Texas, was lined up as the winner of the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge with a prize of US $ 25,000 or around Rp. 366 million.

Anika uses the in-silico methodology to find molecules that can selectively bind to the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein in an attempt to find a cure for the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The last two days, I saw a lot of media hype about my project because it involves the SARS-CoV-2 virus and it reflects our collective hope of ending this pandemic because I, like everyone else, wish we would go back to our normal lives soon,” said Anika.

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Anika, who is of Indian-American descent, did not actually use the in-silico method to find potential therapies for Covid-19. At that time, this method was only used to identify lead compounds that could bind to the proteins of the common coronavirus.

“After spending so much time researching about pandemics, viruses and drug discoveries, it is crazy to think that I have actually experienced something like this,” Anika said as reported. CNN, Monday, October 19, 2020.

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“Because the Covid-19 pandemic was so severe and its impact on the world in such a short time, I, with the help of my mentor, changed course to target the SARS-CoV-2 virus,” he added.


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