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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

News Release - Discovery of Possible Link Between Protein Deletion and Addiction Wins Top Honors at ISEF

Texas High School Senior Wins First-Ever NIDA Scholastic Addiction Science Award

An ambitious exploration of the basic mechanisms underlying addiction received top honors in the new Addiction Science category at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world's largest science competition for high school students.

The project, The Novel Role of the GluCl α; Ion Channel and Diazepam Binding Genes in Alcohol Addiction, was developed by Kapil Vishveshwar Ramachandran, a 16-year-old senior from Westwood High School in Austin, Texas. The new Addiction Science award is co-sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company. This is the first series of awards given exclusively for projects that advance addiction science.
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