Heman Bekele is a 15 year old scientist and inventor!
Last year, he won the 3M and Discovery Education Young Scientist Challenge.
He won by developing the concept for a soap that could potentially treat and even prevent multiple types of skin cancer.
Heman was inspired to take on this project by his parents teaching him about sun safety from a young age, and then thinking about the many people who work outdoors and are thus constantly exposed to UV rays.
He became interested in chemistry at 7 years old, and his discoveries started with a set he got for Christmas.
Although still in high school, he is already doing summer research in a lab at Johns Hopkins to pursue his ideas.
His goals are to make skin cancer treatment more affordable and easily available, so that hopefully cases can be treated earlier.
Learn more about this awesome scientist here!
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