Jack Thomas Andraka (born January 8, 1997) is an American scientist, inventor, and cancer researcher. As a high school student, he won the grand prize at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a method to possibly detect the early stages of pancreatic and other cancers. His work has been questioned by some scientists and writers because it has not been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.[1][2] As of 2018 he was enrolled at Stanford University as a junior majoring in anthropology and in electrical engineering