In Photos: 2013 Siemens Science Competition Finalists

Siemens Competition Finalists

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(Image credit: The Siemens Foundation)

Alyssa Chen & Shriya Das, $10,000 Team Scholarship Winners. Project: "Encapsulation of c-di-GMP adjuvant into pH-tunable micelle-based nanoparticle heightens immune response"

Tanya Lewis
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Tanya was a staff writer for Live Science from 2013 to 2015, covering a wide array of topics, ranging from neuroscience to robotics to strange/cute animals. She received a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a bachelor of science in biomedical engineering from Brown University. She has previously written for Science News, Wired, The Santa Cruz Sentinel, the radio show Big Picture Science and other places. Tanya has lived on a tropical island, witnessed volcanic eruptions and flown in zero gravity (without losing her lunch!). To find out what her latest project is, you can visit her website.