Meet Ekansh Mittal, the 2024 Portland high school grad who won a national award for his cancer research

At only 18 years old, Ekansh Mittal already has a wealth of scientific experience under his belt. As a sixth grader at Meadow Park Middle School, he pitched his first research project to a local lab: a series of experiments testing whether natural herbs and spices could inhibit bacterial growth. During the pandemic, he learned Python, a programming language, and started doing computational ...