Bhargavee Gnanasambandam wins Falling Walls Lab Illinois

Bhargavee Gnanasambandam, a second-year student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Carle Illinois College of Medicine, won the Falling Walls Lab Illinois competition sponsored by Caterpillar Inc., to earn the title of Illinois Young Innovator of the Year. Gnanasambandam also won an all-expenses-paid trip to Berlin, to compete at the global Falling Walls Lab finale on Nov. 7.