Brittany Wenger
Grand Prize Winner, 2012 Google Science Fair
As a high-school senior Brittany Wenger was well on her way to making the diagnosis of breast cancer less painful and more accurate. Brittany began studying neural networks when she was in the seventh grade. She won the grand prize in the 2012 Google Science Fair for her project, “Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer.” The resulting Cloud4Cancer service aggregates data from biopsies done with the fine-needle aspiration process, instead of the traditional and more painful surgical option. The goal of Wenger’s network is to ensure that fine-needle aspiration biopsies are as accurate as traditional biopsies, which would allow more women to be diagnosed and treated early.