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Paywalls vs. open access: Jack Andraka at TEDxUNPlaza

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Jack Thomas Andraka (born 1997) is an inventor, scientist and cancer researcher. He is the recipient of the 2012 Gordon E. Moore Award, the grand prize of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Andraka was awarded the $75,000 Award, named in honor of the co-founder of Intel Corporation, for his work in developing a new, rapid, and inexpensive method to detect 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. 
In addition to the Gordon E. Moore Award, Andraka also won other  prizes in smaller individual categories for a total of $100,500 in prize money. Andraka won a fourth place award in Chemistry at  the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a project focusing on a novel Raman spectrometer with real world. 

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