66th Annual STS (2006-2007)
Finalists
Carol Yoon Joo Suh

CALIFORNIA
Carol Yoon Joo Suh, 17, of Rancho Palos Verdes, submitted a medicine and health project to the Intel Science Talent Search that combines nanotechnology with cancer detection. As a volunteer researcher in UCLA's Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology since May 2005, Carol developed the first microfluidic chip for detecting and analyzing cancer cells. She was able to demonstrate that Micro Pathology Lab Chips (µ-PLCs) can analyze multiple protein interactions from cancer signaling pathways, and, by using a fluorescent microscope, detected proteins from the most malignant form of brain and spinal cord cancer (glioblastoma) on a microfluidic chip. Her findings could improve cancer diagnostics and help physicians determine which treatments would be most effective for any particular patient. Carol plays varsity tennis and is president of the Science Olympiad team at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School in Rolling Hills Estates. She plays piano and viola and her many honors include a first place award in biochemistry at the California State Science Fair in 2006. The daughter of Myung In Suh and Sunhee Suh, Carol hopes to continue her studies at Harvard or MIT.