Meet Jack: Scientist, inventor, kayaking enthusiast, ‘Glee’ fan, likes boys, … and is only 16
CROWNSVILLE, Md. — The age of 13 is a time when most American teenagers worry about their freshman year of high school, begin experiencing their first intimate attractions to others, and keep busy playing video games, texting friends, and surfing the internet.
But in suburban Baltimore, three years ago — at age 13 — one young man decided there had to be a better way to detect cancer.
Meet Jack Andraka, a 16-year-old inventor, scientist, and cancer researcher who, in 2012, was awarded the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair’s prestigious “Gordon E. Moore Award” for his invention that detects an increase of a protein that indicates the presence of pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer during early stages when there is a higher likelihood of a cure.
Jack Andraka
Jack, speaking at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference earlier this year.
Jack says his invention is “168 times faster, plus 26,000 times less expensive, and 400 times more sensitive than the current methods of cancer diagnosis,” and that his detection test “has a cost of only 3 cents and takes 5 minutes to run.”
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