Tumma won the top honors in the competition that also saw two other Indian Americans – Neel Patel from Florida and Anirudh Prabhu from Indiana – finding a place in the top 10.

The winners overcame tough competition from a group of 40 finalists, seven of them Indian Americans, in what is touted as the toughest national science competition. The 40 finalists met President Barack Obama at the White House on Tuesday.

Tumma analysed the molecular mechanisms in cancer cells and found that by inhibiting certain proteins, the growth of cancer cells may be slowed and their malignancy decreased.

Placed sixth, Neel Patel of Florida received a $25,000 award for studying how non-speech patterns of sounds called sonifications can convey information, which could lead to a computer-user interface as revolutionary as the graphical interface was 30 years ago.

Prabhu from Indiana received a $25,000 for the seventh spot for his investigation of the odd-perfect number problem, and his suggestion that odd perfect numbers do not exist.

(via Economic Times and Zee News)

Saarang Sane is originally from Pune, India. He came to United States (Kalamazoo) to pursue Masters in Engineering. While in India Saarang grabbed many awards along with the prestigious Pune Idol award. He was a playback singer for Marathi films and two Australian albums. Saarang got a break from Mr.Mohankumar Bhandari of Pune. Mr. Bhandari was the same person who gave a break to Sonu Nigam.

Coming from a very illustrious musical family, Chitra Sridhar has enthralled audiences in the metro Detroit area and across the United states for over 9 yrs. Trained in Carnatic classical music since the age of four, Chitra has also shared stage with legendary artists from south India like melody queen P Suseela and Smt Jamuna Rani. A highly sought after talent, she performs live and karaoke musical shows in Chicago, St Louis, Cleveland, Indiana, Florida, Iowa, Buffalo and many others. Her ability to sing in multiple languages with equal ease has given her popularity through charity organisations like ASHA , CRY and local cultural associations like Gujarati Samaj, Marathi Mandal, Detroit Malayalee Association and Bichitra .

Chitra’s strengths involve an attractive combination of sweet voice, smooth texture and throw. The tremendous versatility to adapt to different variety of songs with the same aptitude makes it easy for her to reproduce the melodious magic of Asha, Lata, Sunidhi Chauhan and Shreya Goshal with amazing control and feel.

In Michigan, she is the female vocal lead for SPYCE Entertainment (spyceusa@yahoo.com) which specializes in live musical shows and creative entertainment.

Emails for shows and bookings- singerchitra@gmail.com.

Check this YouTube video of Saarang singing songs which were sung by Kishore Kumar, Kumar Shanu, Sonu Nigam, Himesh Reshamiya. This is awesome… indeed a awesome talent. You can contact Saarang at sarang.hrishikesh@gmail.com.