# 2046 — Starcatcher Award, First Evol-Tech Aortic-Valve Regeneration, Linde Award

> At 25, Zayne wins the Starcatcher Award for research showing how Evol genes affect cell-mutation rates during heart development. He performs the first Evol-tech aortic-valve regeneration in history. The same year he becomes the youngest Linde Award winner.

- Branch: Anecdote
- In-universe: 2046
- Released: Launch (Jan 2024)
- Characters: Zayne
- Locations: Akso Hospital
- Page: https://ladsarchive.com/events/zayne-starcatcher-award-2046/

## Description

At age 25, Zayne receives the Starcatcher Award for demonstrating how Evol genes affect cell-mutation rates during heart development — a direct output of his unusual Evol-Cardiac research focus. In the same year he performs the first Evol-tech aortic-valve regeneration in history. He also wins the Linde Award, becoming its youngest recipient ever. Both prizes in the same year at 25 would be remarkable for any surgeon; for someone who started university at 14, they arrive at a pace that makes even other prodigies recalculate.

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