Three remarkable teenagers have scooped top awards in this year’s National Science and Engineering Competition.
Twin sisters Ameeta and Aneeta Kumar won the UK Young Scientists of the Year title after astounding the judges with their project to develop an early diagnostic tool for cancer.
Nobel Prize winning biologist Sir Tim Hunt, who was on the judging panel, said the pair had “done an amazing job”, adding that “their grasp of what they were doing and the ease of their understanding of such a complex project was truly impressive”.
The 18-year-olds, who are both students at The Abbey School in Reading, plan to study medicine at university. In the meantime, a team from the University of Oxford will develop their project.
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