Jack Andraka

Jack Andraka fascinates me less for his obvious brilliance than for his sheer stubbornness. Winning the Gordon E. Moore Award at the Intel science fair as a teenager, with a method aimed at early detection of pancreatic and other cancers, is staggering. But what stays with me is the story of being rejected again and again before someone said yes. He later went on to Stanford, yet his real lesson, I think, is that talent is mostly persistence wearing a lab coat. When kids like him exist, I feel genuinely optimistic about where research is headed.

Name (English)

Jack Andraka

Name (Japanese)

ジャック・アンドレイカ

Reading

じゃっく・あんどれいか

Born

January 8, 1997 (age 29)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

Origin

Crownsville, Maryland, United States

Occupation

inventor / cancer researcher

High school

North County High School

University

Stanford University

• Official sitehttps://www.jackandraka.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Andraka
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2626989

Tags

• Maryland
• inventor
• cancer researcher

Last updated

2026-06-23

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