Dr. Jacks has served on the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Cancer Institute, the Board of Directors of the AmericanAssociationofCancerResearch (AACR), and is a past President of the AACR.
The importance of immigrants to cancerresearch is not a recent phenomenon either: The first head of the National Cancer Institute was an immigrant, and 11 immigrants have served as president of the AmericanAssociation for CancerResearch.
Andraka is in the process of patenting his invention and will soon be submitting his work for publication through the AmericanAssociation for CancerResearch.