Jason Lewis

Professor Lewis is the Emily Tow Jackson Chair in Oncology and serves as Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), Chief of MSK’s Radiochemistry & Imaging Sciences Service, and Director of MSK’s Radiochemistry and Molecular Imaging Probe Core Facility. He is head of a laboratory in the Sloan Kettering Institute’s Molecular Pharmacology Program and a Professor at the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image Guided Therapy, The Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

Professor Lewis holds a PhD from The University of Kent (UK) and has published over 300 papers, books, book chapters, and reviews in the field of cancer imaging. He has served as the President of the World Molecular Imaging Society and was named a Fellow (FWMIS) in 2015. He has received the SNMMI Michael J. Welch award, the Paul C. Aebersold Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Science Applied to Nuclear Medicine, the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy of Radiology Research and the ACS Bioconjugate Chemistry Lectureship Award. He has been named a Fellow of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (FSNMMI), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS). In 2019 Professor Lewis was awarded an NCI Outstanding Investigator Award (R35) to support his work in radiochemistry and molecular imaging.