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| − | Inventor, scientist, cancer researcher, and recipient of the 2012 Gordon E. Moore Award, the grand prize of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his work in creating a process to detect various types of cancer by identifying an increase in a specific type of protein in the body | + | Inventor, scientist, cancer researcher, and recipient of the 2012 Gordon E. Moore Award, the grand prize of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his work in creating a process to detect various types of cancer by identifying an increase in a specific type of protein in the body. This breakthrough process has a 90% accuracy rate. |
==Further Reading/Research== | ==Further Reading/Research== | ||
Revision as of 20:02, 18 November 2013
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1997 -
Occupation
Scientist
Description
Inventor, scientist, cancer researcher, and recipient of the 2012 Gordon E. Moore Award, the grand prize of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his work in creating a process to detect various types of cancer by identifying an increase in a specific type of protein in the body. This breakthrough process has a 90% accuracy rate.
Further Reading/Research
- http://jackandraka.net/
- http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Jack-Andraka-the-Teen-Prodigy-of-Pancreatic-Cancer-179996151.html
- http://www.ted.com/talks/jack_andraka_a_promising_test_for_pancreatic_cancer_from_a_teenager.html
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2012/06/18/wait-did-this-15-year-old-from-maryland-just-change-cancer-treatment/
