New Delhi, Dec. 26 -- The Nipah virus is a recurring health emergency in India, yet finding a cure is dangerously slow because physically testing thousands of compounds is costly and often leads to failure. Grade XII student Vihaan Agrawal addressed this crisis by engineering a specialized "multi-stage computational pipeline" designed to identify effective treatments faster than standard methods.
Vihaan's approach rejects the "gamble" of typical computer screening. Instead, he built a system that treats the virus protein as a flexible, moving target-essential for accurate predictions-rather than a static shape. To ensure the results were scientifically sound, he challenged the system with "decoys" (fake drug candidates), proving it could s...