Bengaluru’s Sia Godika gained the $400,000 Breakthrough Junior Problem prize organised by tech giants like Google and Fb for her video on reversing mobile ageing. Watch it right here.

Sia Godika, a 17-year-old woman from Bengaluru, gained the Junior Problem 2023 Worldwide Science Video Competitors, part of the Breakthrough Prizes.

The competitors is organised by numerous tech giants like Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Fb founder Mark Zuckerberg and his spouse Priscilla Chan, Russian tech large Yuri Milner and his spouse Julia, and American entrepreneur Anne Wojcicki.

Sia beat different individuals to win the prize of round Rs 3,32,00,000 within the competitors together with her award-winning video entry.

Her submission delved into the life and groundbreaking discoveries of Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka on mobile reprogramming. Titled ‘Yamanaka Components’, the video focuses on explaining and demonstrating the scientist’s work on the pluripotent stem cell expertise that may reportedly “flip again time” on cells.

Yamanaka’s analysis has had a profound impression on the therapy of age-related and degenerative illnesses.

This competitors, usually deemed because the ‘Oscars of science’, was created with the intention to encourage inventive desirous about elementary ideas in life sciences, physics and arithmetic.

The Breakthrough Prize Basis stated that the profitable prize quantity can be damaged up amongst Sia, her science trainer Arka Maulik, and the college Neev Academy — Sia will obtain a school scholarship of Rs 2.7 crore, Maulik will obtain a share of Rs 41 lakh from the prize, and her faculty will get a lab designed by Chilly Spring Harbor Laboratory value Rs 83 lakh.

Curiously, six years in the past, Sia’s brother Samay gained the identical prize as properly.

Chatting with the TOI, Sia stated that “this was a inventive and analytical journey”, the place she might train numerous expertise from writing the script to lastly directing and producing the video.

She will likely be given the prize alongside the 2024 Breakthrough Prize laureates at a ceremony in Los Angeles this spring.

Watch Sia’s award-winning video right here:

Right here’s Sia receiving the coveted award:

Edited by Pranita Bhat