Boy Wonder: Jack Andraka (He is just 15)

Rishi wrote:So when news broke last year that a test had been developed that might detect early pancreatic cancer, the research world not only took notice, it went into shock -- for the test hadn't been developed by some renowned cancer research institute, but by a boy wonder, a 15-year-old high school freshman named Jack Andraka. He then convinced an eminent cancer researcher to let him use his lab to develop his theory, all before he even had a license to drive. And while the test must undergo years of clinical trials, the biotech industry has already beaten a path to Jack's door.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57606995/boy-wonder-jack-andraka/

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50157066n

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

Rishi wrote:So when news broke last year that a test had been developed that might detect early pancreatic cancer, the research world not only took notice, it went into shock -- for the test hadn't been developed by some renowned cancer research institute, but by a boy wonder, a 15-year-old high school freshman named Jack Andraka. He then convinced an eminent cancer researcher to let him use his lab to develop his theory, all before he even had a license to drive. And while the test must undergo years of clinical trials, the biotech industry has already beaten a path to Jack's door.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57606995/boy-wonder-jack-andraka/

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50157066n

Here is the Indian Professor who helped the kid. He is just an MBBS from AIIMSHe should thank the Indian guy for buying into his idea and letting him use the lab.

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Maitra earned his medical degree in New Delhi at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.  He completed a residency in anatomic pathology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where he also obtained fellowship training in molecular and pediatric pathology. He then completed a clinical/research fellowship in gastrointestinal and liver pathology at Johns Hopkins and later joined the faculty in 2002, where he rose quickly through the academic ranks and was promoted to professor in 2010.

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Rishi wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

Rishi wrote:So when news broke last year that a test had been developed that might detect early pancreatic cancer, the research world not only took notice, it went into shock -- for the test hadn't been developed by some renowned cancer research institute, but by a boy wonder, a 15-year-old high school freshman named Jack Andraka. He then convinced an eminent cancer researcher to let him use his lab to develop his theory, all before he even had a license to drive. And while the test must undergo years of clinical trials, the biotech industry has already beaten a path to Jack's door.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57606995/boy-wonder-jack-andraka/

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50157066n

Here is the Indian Professor who helped the kid. He is just an MBBS from AIIMSHe should thank the Indian guy for buying into his idea and letting him use the lab.

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Maitra earned his medical degree in New Delhi at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.  He completed a residency in anatomic pathology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where he also obtained fellowship training in molecular and pediatric pathology. He then completed a clinical/research fellowship in gastrointestinal and liver pathology at Johns Hopkins and later joined the faculty in 2002, where he rose quickly through the academic ranks and was promoted to professor in 2010.

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>>> About this man being just an MBBS.  If you are at the right place and at right time, even if you did not finish school, you will succeed.

Is it true that those who did not get high scores in USMLE end up in pathology?