article_snippet.sent: Then a close family friend, Uncle Ted, died of pancreatic cancer.
article_snippet.sent: Initially, Jack thought of trying to find a cure for pancreatic cancer - an ambitious task, given that Jack didn't know what a pancreas was.
article_snippet.sent: An online search revealed that survival rates are low, partly because the cancer is hard to detect.
article_snippet.sent: Jack wrote 200 emails to university science departments - and 199 rejections later Dr Anirban Maitra, an expert in pancreatic cancer at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, offered Jack a corner of Jack lab to work in, under supervision.
article_snippet.sent: When Jack test for detecting pancreatic cancer won the top award at a prestigious international science competition in 2012, Jack wild celebrations at the awards ceremony went viral.
highlights_snippet.sent: Uncle Ted passed away from pancreatic cancer .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Jack then developed a test for detecting pancreatic cancer .
  