University of Delaware, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Known for
Tumor pathophysiology, Tumor normalization
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship (1983) Founding Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (1992) Outstanding Investigator Grant, NIH (1993; 2015) Whitaker Distinguished Lecturer, Biomedical Engineering Society (1995) Eugene M. Landis Award, Microcirculatory Society (1996) National Academy of Medicine (2003) National Academy of Engineering (2004) Academic Scientist of the Year, 2005 Pharmaceutical Achievement Awards (2005) Benjamin Zweifach Distinguished Lecture, The City College, New York (2006) Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008) National Academy of Sciences (2009) ASCO Science of Oncology Award and Lecture (2012) Princess Takamatsu Lecture/Award National Medal of Science (2013) American Association for Cancer Research (2014) Earl P. Benditt Award (2018)
Scientific career
Fields
Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Tumor Biology
Institutions
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Doctoral advisor
James Wei
Other academic advisors
Pietro M. Gullino
Rakesh K. Jain (born 1950) is the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School and director of the E.L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
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He has mentored more than 200 graduate and postdoctoral students from over a dozen different disciplines. Jain's research findings are summarized in more than 600 publications, which have been cited more than 200,000 times (as of November, 2023). He was among the top 1% cited researchers in Clinical Medicine in 2014-15.[2] 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.
He has received more than 75 awards from engineering and medical professional societies/institutions. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the integration of bioengineering with tumor biology and imaging gene expression and functions in vivo for drug delivery in tumors. He is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2014, he was chosen as one of 50 Oncology Luminaries on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.[3] In 2015, Jain received honorary doctorates from Duke University, KU Leuven, Belgium and IIT-Kanpur, India. In 2013, he was awarded the National Medal of Science.[4]
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