Simply put, he says his goal is to “build better drugs.” “So in your lifetime, will we cure cancer?” Oprah asks. What happened to the 10 year old prodigy on Oprah?Īs for his career, Smith is now a postdoctoral researcher at Mount Sinai where he studies stochastic gene expression. Today, Smith is a postdoctoral researcher at Mount Sinai where he studies stochastic gene expression.