6 Regeneron Semifinalists from Bergen County Academies

Six Students from the Bergen County Academies earn honors in the 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search

Fourteen of the top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2023 come from New Jersey. Six students are from the Bergen County Academies located in Hackensack, NJ. The Regeneron Science Talent Search, formerly sponsored by Intel and Westinghouse, is the nation’s oldest science and math competition for high school students. Regeneron, a biotech company based in Tarrytown, New York has sponsored the Science Talent Search since 2017.

The 300 students, from schools around the U.S., Puerto Rico and four other countries, are awarded $2,000 each; schools are awarded $2,000 for each winner. The next round comes Jan. 24, when 40 are named Regeneron Science Talent Search finalists. These students get the chance to compete for more than $1.8 million in awards during a March competition in Washington, D.C.

Russell Davis, Principal of the Bergen County Academies commented on the students’ recognition, “We couldn’t be prouder of these students. The past few years have been difficult due to the pandemic. The majority of our student research takes place here in our labs at school. With the school closure, we were not sure how are students would fare this year. However, they persevered, worked hard, and it’s great to see their efforts were rewarded.”

Here are the young researchers, with the titles of their research:

Bergen County Academies

Remington Kim, Paramus, OrphaDRGL: A Novel Graph Deep Learning-Based Drug Repositioning Approach for Orphan Diseases

Sungmin Kim, Demarest, A Novel Rotation-Aware Representation Learning for Gaze Estimation To Assist Disabled Individuals in Comfortably Communicating With the World Through Various Applications

Amishi Mittal, Ridgewood, Correlations Between Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease and Increasing Ab Degradation by Insulin-Degrading Enzyme via Zinc Chelation

Sonya Savelyev, Hillsdale, Paradoxical Role of TGF-β in Epithelial and Mesenchymal Breast Cancer Cells

Divyash Viral Shah, Tenafly, Effect of SCN9A Gene Therapy in Reversing Senescence in Astrocytes in vitro and Alzheimer's Disease Implications

Temmie Yu, Ramsey, A Novel Biomarker of Psychological Stress: Salivary Cell-Free Mitochondrial DNA (cf-mtDNA)