(Ha'aretz) Guy Grimland - Dr. Hossam Haick, 35, a Christian Arab from Nazareth, oversees dozens of scientists from his office at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Haick is working on an "electronic nose" to detect several types of cancer in their early stages. His seven labs employ 27 researchers and 14 technology developers, and his team has registered 17 patents so far. "Our diagnosis rates are very good. We have reached 89% in early detection of breast cancer. With lung cancer we have achieved an early detection capability of 100%, but the samples in the clinical trials are still too small....We have succeeded in diagnosing five types of cancer by means of breath tests." After completing a postdoc at Caltech, he returned to the Technion. "I was born here. I am tied to Israel. I also want to prove to others from the Arab community that nothing is impossible... that if you are talented enough, you get to wherever you want."
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