Never Too Young To Make A Difference: Brittany Wenger at TEDxYouth@SanDiego 2013

Brittany Wenger, a freshman at Duke University, is transforming cancer diagnostics with her breakthrough innovations for Breast Cancer and MLL Leukemia. Innovating with Artifical Intelligence and Neural Networks, Brittany shows us all that following your passions - at any age - can lead to life-transforming breakthroughs.

A freshman and AB Scholar at Duke University, Brittany Wenger is dual majoring in biology and computer science and conducting research in an epigenetic ovarian cancer lab. Wenger began studying neural networks when she was in the seventh grade. And in 2012, she won the grand prize of the second Google Science Fair for her project, "Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer." Brittany's resulting Cloud4Cancer service aids in early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. And because it is delivered as a cloud service, Cloud4Cancer is built to support usage by every hospital in the world. Recently, Cloud4Cancer has been extended to manage leukemia diagnostics. Not only detecting aggressive cancers, it can also recommend which proteins may be candidates for drug targeting in the future.

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[Just..K]

Very inspiring young lady. You really are never too young to make a difference.

[ellypencheva]

Inspiring .... if only more young people were like her :)