Teenager taps into NCBI expertise and becomes finalist in science competition | NLM in Focus

Teenager taps into NCBI expertise and becomes finalist in science competition | NLM in Focus

Teenager taps into NCBI expertise and becomes finalist in science competition

04/11/2019 09:00 AM EDT

The Intramural Research Program (IRP) at NIH is home to some of today’s and tomorrow’s greatest scientific minds. Hundreds of budding biomedical pioneers begin honing their scientific skills here in high school, but very few win distinction as quickly as seventeen-year-old Daniel Schäffer, whose IRP research earned him inclusion among this year’s 40 finalists in…