Eight years ago, Divya Gopisetty’s younger sister was diagnosed with Type I diabetes. Since then she kept up with current research regarding diabetes and worked in the neuroscience lab over the summer of her junior year in Stanford University School of Medicine. She was was chosen as an Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist for her research into “Novel Treatment of Diabetic Neuropathy through Interruption of Stress-Activated Pathway in Caenorhabditis elegant”.
High Schooler Divya Gopisetty believes her research will not only open doors in the fields of neuroscience and endocrinology, but also connect the two in a previously underrepresented way. Read more