Computational biology and bioinformatics · INDIA
Machine-learning prediction of colorectal cancer from gut-microbiome biomarkers (project CBIO003), which won a Fourth Award in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Regeneron ISEF 2025. Student at The International School Bangalore.
Age not published in any source; a student of The International School Bangalore
Karnataka · India
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Ananya Ganapathy, a student of The International School Bangalore, works where computing meets biology. In May 2025, her project — “A Prediction Model for Detecting Colorectal Cancer and Identifying Biomarkers From the Gut Microbiome” — won a Fourth Award in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in Columbus, Ohio, verified on the Society for Science’s official awards list.
Her research uses machine learning to search the gut microbiome — the community of microbes living in the human digestive system — for patterns that could reveal colorectal cancer early, without invasive tests. Her research summary names the classifiers she trains — Random Forest, XGBoost and neural networks — on microbiome data from patients and healthy samples, looking for microbial genera whose presence tracks the disease. The work pays particular attention to India and other developing countries, where microbiome data has been scarce, and it began during a research internship at IIT Madras. Her website also records a Grand Award at India’s IRIS National Fair 2025 and a second study, on predicting survival in an aggressive blood cancer; alongside research she founded Double Helix, a school magazine on computational biology, and writes a monthly column on technology for The Hindu.
Your body carries trillions of microbes that no one can see — what might they already be telling doctors, if we learn how to listen? That is a question from us, not part of her record.
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Open the article edition →Machine-learning prediction of colorectal cancer from gut-microbiome biomarkers (project CBIO003), which won a Fourth Award in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Regeneron ISEF 2025. Student at The International School Bangalore.
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Society for Science · Regeneron ISEF 2025 full awards list ↗Official awards list
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Agricultural roboticsRajasthan · India
Built AgRobot, a solar-powered AI and IoT farm robot, over four years at his school’s Atal Tinkering Lab in Kota; received the PMRBP 2024 (Science & Technology) as the category’s sole recipient.
17 in January 2024 (PTI)
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16 in 2025 (YourStory profile); born October 2008 (Wikipedia, secondary)
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Mumbai student who medalled at INOI three years running — silver 2024, silver 2025, gold 2026 (one of ten) — qualifying for the IOITC each year, then won bronze at APIO-2026 as one of India’s six official participants. Co-founder and lead trainer of SPOI, a free olympiad-mentorship programme. Bombay Scottish School, Mumbai.
No age published; Class 12 at INOI-2026 (February 2026)
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