Rakesh K. Jain

Dr. Jain is the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology (Tumor Biology) at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School and the director of the E.L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology at Mass General. His research findings have been summarized in 600+ publications.

He serves or has served on advisory panels to government, industry and academia, and is a member of editorial advisory boards of 22 journals, including Nature Reviews Cancer and Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. The recipient of more than 75 awards from engineering and medical professional societies/institutions, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and all three branches of the U.S. National Academies — the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.

In 2014, Dr. Jain was chosen as one of 50 Oncology Luminaries on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In 2015, he received his B.Tech in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur, India) and his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware.