Heman Bekele, the 15-year-old student who invented a soap to treat cancer, was named 2024 Kid of the Year by Time magazine. He said he was “thrilled” to receive the recognition and thanked the ...

Heman Bekele whipped up the most dangerous of what he called his “potions” when he was just over 7 years old. He’d been conducting his own science experiments for about three years by that ...

'TIME' Kid of the Year Heman Bekele created a bar of soap with the drug imiquimod as an active ingredient. The drug is already approved to cure certain types of skin cancer in its cream form.

Heman Bekele from Annandale, Virginia, is a 15-year-old scientist "who could change how we treat skin cancer," stated Time in its announcement released Thursday.

Heman Bekele, a young scientist, creates a compound-based soap to treat skin cancer, winning the 3M Young Scientist Challenge and TIME Magazine's 2024 Kid of the Year.

At just 15 years old, Heman Bekele has already achieved what many seasoned scientists only dream of creating a potential breakthrough in skin cancer treatment. Bekele, a sophomore at W.T. Woodson ...

Heman Bekele has just been named Time's 2024 Kid of the Year.. As Time writes, "His accomplishment: inventing a soap that could one day treat and even prevent multiple forms of skin cancer. It may ...

At 15 years old, most high schoolers are just trying to find a homecoming date. Heman Bekele is trying to find a cure for skin cancer. A rising sophomore at Fairfax’s Woodson High School, Bekele ...

Heman Bekele has been seeing the effects of the sun on people's skin since he was a young boy growing up in Ethiopia. He noticed many people working in the sun without protecting their skin, TIME ...