Addiction Science Award Winners Announced
NIDA presented Addiction Science Awards to three high school students during the 2010 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), held last May in San Jose, California. Addiction Science Award winners: Kevin Knight (2nd place), Ameya Deshmukh (1st place), Joseph Yagoda (3rd place). Ameya Ashish Deshmukh, a 16-year-old student at Upper Arlington (Ohio) High School, won first place for his project, titled "Rational Drug Design Methods for the Identification of a Novel Negative Allosteric Modulator of α 4β 2 Nicotinic Receptors." To identify molecules that bind to nicotine receptors