Lynetta Wang

Lynetta entered the Stripe Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition in 2024, where her project looking at changing the interactions between two proteins in pancreatic cancer won second place in the Senior Individual Biological & Ecological Category and the Eli Lilly Award. She spent months cold-emailing labs in Dublin, eventually finding space at Trinity’s Translational Medicine Institute, where she carried out her molecular biology experiments.

During her gap year, Lynetta completed a research project at University College Dublin (UCD) on chemotherapy resistance, worked with The Shona Project on strategy and operations, and helped run the youth accelerator Patch—where she previously built a device for real-time detection of female hormones through sweat. She also organised a three-week trip to San Francisco and Boston, visiting startups, venture capitalists, and research institutes, and securing an internship with age1—a longevity-focused venture fund.

Now studying biochemistry at Imperial, Lynetta is continuing to explore self-aware therapies—treatments that can sense and respond to changes inside the body in real time.

Lynetta’s advice to Stripe YSTE participants? “Don’t overcomplicate your project title. If people can’t understand it, they’ll miss the impact of your work.”

Follow Lynetta’s journey on LinkedIn and her website.