For This High School Student, Success in Science Didn't Have to Wait For College- All Images

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News Release 10-095

For This High School Student, Success in Science Didn't Have to Wait For College

Long Island, N.Y., teenager turns a part-time internship into cutting-edge biomedical innovations and international honors

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Julia Poje, at this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, holding a sign.

Julia Poje, a Long Island, N.Y., high school student, is shown at this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. As an intern at the Division of Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, Poje worked on creating a detection system for filoviruses, a group of viruses that include Ebola and Marburg. This work won her high honors at the fair this year in San Jose, Calif.

Credit: Courtesy of Julia Poje

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