“I think it’s certainly possible in my lifetime that we’ll be able to develop really effective, targeted treatments for people’s individual versions of cancer that they have. “That’s a tough question to answer,” Smith answers. “So in your lifetime, will we cure cancer?” Oprah questions him. Easily put, he announces that his goal is to “build better drugs.” “And that was incredible.” He went on to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times for his charity work campaigning for children’s saftey and rights.Īs for his job, Smith is now a postdoctoral researcher at Mount Sinai where he studies stochastic gene expression. The attention also gave the young boy a platform to talk about the issues he’s most enthusiastic about. “And it was amazing, it was flattering, it was incredible to be a part of that.” “They just couldn’t handle the constant bombardment of people who were interested in my story,” he states. When his interview with “The Oprah Show” aired (and every time it was re-ran) Smith says the servers at his school would crash because his email address was stated in the episode. “There would be people that would recognize me everywhere,” he remembers. Though some parts of his childhood were average, other children his age surely weren’t being interviewed on “60 Minutes,” “Late Show with David Letterman” and “The Oprah Show.” Known as the “boy genius,” Smith created a media frenzy in the late ‘90s. We liked sports, we liked going out, just having a good time.”

“I mean, sure we were in different grades, but we still liked a lot of the same things.

“I had lots of friends my own age too, and I think that was really important,” he continues. “I had lots of friends in college and hung out with a lot of the people there in my programs,” he states. Though the other students were almost twice his age, Smith says he wasn’t rejected. “It was a bit strange of course, being that much younger,” Smith admits. Though it didn’t seem like it at the time, he explains to “Oprah: Where Are They Now?“ that being in college at such a young age made him have to grow up fast. At ten years old he entered college where he studied advanced level physics, French and calculus. By the age of seven, he was walking the halls of high school. He cruised through most of primary school in just one year. To say that Greg Smith was a talented child is putting it easily.

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