STEMStart Co-Founder Niati Kottury received 2nd place alongside Shubeeb Rudd, Meghna Sudheer and Rhea Chatterji at the 2023-2024 Bioinformatics Hackathon (BNFOthon) hosted by the VCU Undergraduate Society of Bioinformatics. Our project addressed the accessibility of gene therapy in the US and our solution was to implement gene therapy and healthcare policies from Brazil.