The Regeneron Science Talent Search (Regeneron STS), a program of the Society for Science for 83 years, is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition.

2025 Science Talent Search Project Showcase: Owen Jianwen Zhang, 18, of Bellevue, developed a solution to a problem about objects called 3-uniform hypergraphs for his Regeneron Science Talent Search mathematics project.

2025 Science Talent Search Finalist Lena Zewdu Feleke, 17, of Antioch, searched for a better way to deliver gene therapy into kidney cells. Her research focused on different plasmid constructs containing the SLC3A1 gene, a genetic cause of kidney stones.

2025 Science Talent Search Finalist Ava Grace Cummings, 18, of Smithfield, created a model organism of STAC3 disorder. This rare genetic condition was formerly called Native American myopathy.