If all goes according to his plan, Greg will have three Ph. a person with exceptional talent or ability: a child prodigy a marvelous thing. Simply put, he says his goal is to “build better drugs.” “So in your lifetime, will we cure cancer?” Oprah asks. Where is the 10 year old prodigy Greg now?Īs for his career, Smith is now a postdoctoral researcher at Mount Sinai where he studies stochastic gene expression. Now, at 26 years old, Greg Smith is still just as smart. He was learning alongside much older students and didn’t feel at all out of place.
Often described as gifted, Greg learnt the entire primary school program in the space of just one year. 5 How old should a child be to be a prodigy?.
