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Scientific solutions from the Forbes 30 under 30, in 30 words or less.
Nikhil Agarwal | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 29
His research on matching systems originally explored how medical residents are assigned to hospitals; this year he turned his focus to the allocation of transplant organs.
Steve Ramirez |MIT | 27
Good memories might be an antidepressant--for rodents, anyway. Ramirez recently completed a project demonstrating that inducing positive memories curbs depression in mice.
Evelyn Auyeung|
At Northwestern U., Auyeung worked with nanoparticles, making a tiny Erector set out of DNA. In April she joined Dow to become a senior chemist, focusing on plastics.
Jon Freeman |New York University | 29
Looks matter: Freeman researches the ways that humans unconsciously make snap judgments about qualities like trustworthiness, competence and likability based on people's faces.
Jason Sheltzer |Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | 29
Working from the theory that if you can figure out how something grows, you might be able to stop it, Sheltzer, an MIT Ph.D., studies genetics and cancer progression.
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