Claire Jiang

Claire Jiang is a student researcher from Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, New Jersey, and a juvenile idiopathic arthritis patient-researcher. She developed a novel in vitro cell culture model for juvenile idiopathic arthritis, work recognized in the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search, where she was named a 7th Place Winner.

Young Researchers Target Diagnostic and Modeling Bottlenecks in Pediatric Health

At Aspen Ideas: Health, Francis Collins moderated three teenage researchers whose work targets gaps between biological evidence and clinical care. Maya Hammoud described an organoid model linking ASXL3 loss to neuron deficits in neurodevelopmental disorders; Claire Jiang presented a cell model intended to make juvenile idiopathic arthritis easier to study; and Edward Kang argued that AI analysis of retinal images could help refer children for autism or ADHD evaluation earlier, without replacing behavioral diagnosis.

The Aspen InstituteJun 24, 202621 min read