BOSTON – Boston is home to a National STEM Champion, an eleventh-grader whose project revolved around gene therapy.
A student at Boston Latin School, Evan Ding may look like your average high school student. Outside school, he’s a National STEM Champion and recipient of an $50,000 scholarship from the Davidson Institute. Oh, he’s an award-winning pianist as well.
Gene therapy project
WBZ-TV first met Ding in February, when he was surprised with the announcement that he was a winner of the National STEM Festival. His award-winning idea is based around gene therapy.
“Genetic diseases have been affecting millions of people in the United States alone, and gene therapy is a groundbreaking method that scientists use to treat this,” said Ding…