A 17 year old young Kirtana Vallabhaneni a student of West Kirby Grammar School named the UK Young Scientist of the Year as the prize award at The Big Bang Fair at Birmingham’s NEC on Friday.

Beating up around 360 other11 to 18-year-old entrants in this toughest contesting, a Merseyside student has succeed to make her name as a finalist. However other four finalists were female that shows strong opportunities for women to bright future in science field.

This talents hunt contest was for those youngsters who completed a science, technology, engineering or maths project. Vallabhaneni was working on a project at University of Liverpool to identifying the harmful cells that cause pancreatic cancer that can be targeted with chemotherapy.

The jury members who gave their judgment for selecting one finalist for the national award were including renowned space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Nobel Prize winning biochemist Sir Tim Hunt, and the Science Museum’s inventor in residence Mark Champkins.

UK Young Scientist was so happy after getting this great honourable achievement that she associated with those young high talented entrants to “instil the same kind of passion she have for science in other young people”.

“Everything that I’ve worked for over the last year has come together and if I can do it, they definitely can,” Ms Vallabhaneni said.

Ms Vallabhaneni’s work was so innovative and exciting that all jury members appreciated it. Be happy with her project, Aderin-Pocock said in her praise, “The country’s science and engineering industry has an incredibly bright future ahead of it if Kirtana and her fellow finalists are anything to go by inspire others to think about science and engineering in a new and exciting light.”