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Congratulations ISEF winners!

We're excited to announce the winners of the 2026 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair!

Hikaru Kuribayashi, 17, of Sapporo, Japan won first place and received the $100,000 George D. Yancopoulos Innovator Award for his creation of a simulation program to understand complex folding, like in origami. The award is named in honor of George D. Yancopoulos, the pioneering drug researcher and Regeneron co-Founder, Board co-Chair, President and Chief Scientific Officer.

Lakshmi Agrawal, 18, of Bellevue, Washington, and Nikola Veselinov, 17, of Sofia, Bulgaria each received the Regeneron Young Scientist Awards of $75,000, Agrawal for a sponge that removes salmon-killing pollutants from water, and Veselinov for describing a new theorem in mathematics that describes the conditions under which certain equations cannot be solved using basic math functions.

Congratulations to the 2026 winners!