Brandon Law

Brandon Matravers Law, a 17-year-old student from Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minnesota, is a young Asian-American scientist investigating glioma brain tumor metabolism and cancer immunotherapy using induced pluripotent stem cells.

Law was a national finalist at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the largest pre-college scientific research event in the world. Each May, over 1500 students from 52 nations are flown in to compete in the fair for scholarships, tuition grants, internships, and scientific field trips. He has a patent pending for a cytotoxic drug screening device. He is also one of a number of Young Epidemiology Scholars and Minnesota Scholars of Distinction in Science. Law was invited to present at the Gordon Research Conference at Oxford University, the youngest ever to be invited.

Law has been working with GL261 glioma brain tumors cells, including his recent discovery involving its glycolytic-dependent phenotype. His research contradicts the general assumption that glioma cells exhibit the Pasteur effect, rather his research suggests gliomas exhibit the Warburg effect. This has applications in tumor nutrition blocking therapies.

Law has also created his own brain cancer non-profit promoting organization, American Brain Cancer Foundation.

Law works alongside doctors, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and top scientists in the fields of molecular biology, neuro-oncology, and immunology.

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