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Aranyo G.，是Tom Baines School的八年级学生。他参加了卡尔加里青年科学展览会。他赢得了卡尔加里顶级初级项目，并且他的项目是在5月12日至18日在渥太华举行的加拿大全国科学展览会中入选的前十二个项目之一。

Aranyo在渥太华与其他500名学生竞争，并且获得了卓越奖金牌，这是他单独在代表艾伯塔省的团队中获得的荣誉。Aranyo感谢他的导师Dr. Argit Roy。Dr. Roy在加拿大卡尔加里大学工作，并在过去两年里指导了Aranyo。Aranyo的梦想和热情是追求一个在健康科学领域的职业。

Aranyo的项目涉及化学遗传学的研究——使用病毒作为药物受体。Aranyo了解到，12-15%的高血压患者对药物具有耐药性。通常，为了帮助耐药患者降低血压，必须切除他们的颈动脉体。颈动脉体用于测量血液中的pH值，二氧化碳和氧气。不幸的是，切除颈动脉体会有重大副作用，如不能进行体育锻炼，高海拔地区呼吸困难等。Aranyo发现，如果应用化学遗传学并向颈动脉体注射病毒，病毒可以作为药物C.N.O的受体，有效降低人体血压而无需切除颈动脉体。

Aranyo因在化学遗传学领域的工作获得了4000美元奖学金。恭喜这位优秀的CBE学生！

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Aranyo G., a Grade 8 student at Tom Baines School, competed in the Calgary Youth Science Fair. He won the Top Junior Project in Calgary, and his project was one of the top twelve projected selected to compete at the Canada-wide Science Fair held in Ottawa from May 12-18.

Aranyo competed against 500 other students in Ottawa and received the Gold Medal for Excellence Award, an honour that he alone won amongst the Team Alberta students. Aranyo thanks his mentor, Dr. Argit Roy. Dr. Roy works at the University of Calgary and has mentored Aranyo for past two years. Aranyo’s dream and passion is to pursue a career in Health Sciences.

Aranyo’s project involved the study of chemogenetics—using a virus as a receptor for a drug. Aranyo learned that 12-15 per cent of people with high blood pressure are drug resistant. Typically, in order to help drug resistant patients lower their blood pressure, their carotid body must be removed. The carotid body measures PH, carbon dioxide, and oxygen in the blood. Unfortunately, there are major side effects when the carotid body is removed—i.e. no physical exercise, problems breathing at high altitudes, etc. Aranyo discovered that if chemogentics is applied and a virus is injected into the carotid body, it could serve as a receptor for the drug, C.N.O. This effectively lowers a person’s blood pressure without the need to remove the carotid body.

Aranyo won a $4,000 scholarship for his work in the field of chemogenetics. Congratulations to an outstanding CBE student!