Jason Lewis has joined the Center as Chief of the Radiochemistry Service in the Department of Radiology and an Associate Member in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He also holds an appointment in Sloan-Kettering Institute's Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program and is the Director of the Cyclotron-Radiochemisty Core facility.
Dr. Lewis was previously on the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), in St. Louis, where he was Assistant Professor of Radiology. His research centers on developing new positron emission tomography (PET) radiopharmaceuticals for noninvasive imaging of cancer. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles as well as numerous book chapters and reviews, and is a member of the editorial board of Current Radiopharmaceuticals and an associate editor of Cancer Research. A native of England, Dr. Lewis received his PhD degree in 1997 from the University of Kent. He then joined WUSM as a research associate in radiology. He is a member of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, the American Association for Cancer Research, and the Society of Radiopharmaceutical Sciences.
