<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Today, we’re excited to announce a Right to Research Coalition video interview with Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the US National Institutes of Health, and Jack Andraka, the 16-year-old inventor of a breakthrough cancer diagnostic, discussing the importance of Open Access.</div> <br><b><a href="http://youtu.be/G55hlnSD1Ys">Click here to watch the video interview</a><br></b> <br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 900; "><a href="http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/open-access-empowers-16-year-old-to-create-breakth.shtml"><b>Click here to read our announcement</b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 900; "><br></span> <br>Jack used free online articles “religiously” in creating his pancreatic diagnostic that is 26,667 times cheaper, 168 times faster, and 400 times more sensitive than the current test. In discussing his discovery, Jack points to paywalls for journal articles as a central barrier preventing others from making similar breakthroughs.<br> <br>Jack is a perfect example of the increased innovation that arises from unexpected places when anyone with curiosity, determination, and an Internet connection has Open Access to the research literature. <div><br><br><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; "> </span></u></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; ">Nick Shockey<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; ">Director, Right to Research Coalition<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; ">Director of Student Advocacy, SPARC<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; "><a href="mailto:nick@arl.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">nick@arl.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; ">+1 202 296 2296<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; ">Skype: nick.shockey<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; "><a href="http://www.righttoresearch.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.righttoresearch.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 79, 174); "><a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.arl.org/sparc</a></span></u></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><u><br></u></span></div></div></div></div></body></html>