"Theranostics - Precision Medicine in Cancer Treatment"
Speaker: Jason Lewis, PhD, Vice Chair for Research, Chief of the Radiochemistry and Imaging Sciences Service, and Director of the Radiochemistry and Molecular Imaging Probe Core Facility, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Date: March. 20, 2025, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Location: Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health Building, Atkins Family Seminar Room
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Description
Professor Lewis earned a B.Sc. in Chemistry (1992) and a M.Sc. (1993) in Chemistry from the University of Essex and then in 1996 obtained a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Kent with Professor Philip J. Blower. His postdoctoral work was with Professors Carolyn J. Anderson and Michael J. Welch at the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM). Subsequently he joined the WUSM faculty as an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (2003-2008). Professor Lewis then joined MSK in 2008.
Professor Lewis has served as the President of the World Molecular Imaging Society and the Society for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences. He has been awarded the SNMMI Michael J. Welch Award, the SNMMI Paul C. Aebersold Award, the ACS Bioconjugate Chemistry Lectureship Award, the Gold Medal from the World Molecular Imaging Society and in 2023 he received the ACS Glenn Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry. This year he will receive the SNMMI Saul Hertz Award. Jason is a Fellow of the World Molecular Imaging Society, the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering and the Society for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences.
Lewis’ research program is a molecular imaging-based program focused on radiopharmaceutical development as well as the study of multimodality (PET, CT & MRI) small- and biomolecule-based agents and their clinical translation. The recipient of numerous NIH R01 grants, as well as the highly prestigious NCI Outstanding Investigator Award (R35), he is also a successful educator and mentor, with multiple training grants including an NCI T32. He has published >350 papers and reviews in the field of radiochemistry and molecular imaging.
About the Speaker
Professor Jason S. Lewis is the Emily Tow Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He is the Chief Attending of the Radiochemistry & Imaging Sciences Ser
vice and serves as the Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Radiology. He holds a joint appointment in the Molecular Pharmacology Program in the Sloan-Kettering Institute. He also holds appointments at the Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School, New York, NY and the Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.
About the Series
The goal of the NextGen Precision Health & Ellis Fischel Cancer Center Science Seminar is to highlight transdisciplinary precision research taking place in the cancer field, provide opportunities for collaboration among researchers to build their own research efforts and promote clinical/researcher activity across the University of Missouri System and our partners.
For questions about this event, please reach out to Mackenzie Lynch.