This teen boy seeks venture capital for AI to fight breast cancer

How much can a 17-year-old boy really know about women? For starters, that thousands face heartbreaking and costly misdiagnosed breast cancer scares every year. Abu Qader, who's about to start his final year in the Chicago public school system's Lane Technical College Prep High School, was born in war-scarred Afghanistan but has spent most of his 17 years on Earth in the U.S. Qader and European business partner Vedad Mesanovic, who focuses on young and under-resourced scientists, created a company they call GliaLab (named after the cells that support and protect neurons). They are now courting venture capitalists for a targeted 600,000 to help finance the breast cancer-focused artificial intelligence that Qader first created for a 10th-grade class project. Qader believes his technology can help women (and men, too) take on potentially deadly breast tumors and non-cancerous growths by using the convenience of their own mobile phone or tablet to aid in diagnosis and classification, reduce human error and save the expense of false-positive readings.