Jason S. Lewis

Professor Jason S. Lewis is the Emily Tow Jackson Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He is the Chief Attending of the Radiochemistry & Imaging Sciences Service and serves as the Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Radiology. He also holds appointments at the Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School, New York, NY and the Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY. Professor Lewis has served as the 2015 President of the World Molecular Imaging Society and is the President of 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 will receive the ACS Glenn Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry.

He is a Fellow of the World Molecular Imaging Society, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering.

Professor Lewis’ research program is a molecular imaging-based program focused on radiopharmaceutical development as well as the study of small- and biomolecule-based therapeutic and diagnostic agents and their clinical translation. He has published >300 papers and reviews in the field of radiochemistry and molecular imaging.