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American inventor and cancer researcher (born 1997)

Jack Thomas Andraka (born January 8, 1997) is an American who, as a high school student, won the Gordon E. Moore Award at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a method to possibly detect the early stages of pancreatic and other cancers.

In 2018, as a junior majoring in anthropology and in electrical engineering at Stanford University, he was awarded the Truman Scholarship for his graduate studies.^[1]

Pancreatic cancer sensor

Andraka's winning project consisted of a sensor, similar to diabetic test strips, for early-stage pancreatic cancer screening.

The sensor, consisting of filter paper coated with single-walled carbon nanotubes and antibodies against human mesothelin, was said to measure the level of mesothelin to test for the presence of cancer in a patient.^[2]

The project claimed that tests on human blood serum showed a dose-dependent response, and that h LI, Qingyu | School of Science and Engineering MAG