2023 Seaborg Award: Jason S. Lewis

Current position: Professor and Emily Tow Chair in Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Education: BSc and MSc, chemistry, University of Essex; PhD, biochemistry, University of Kent

Lewis on who inspired him to become a scientist: “Sir Patrick Moore, an amateur astronomer who had a British TV show. When I was a child and watching the show, he said (after the launch of the first space shuttle) that anyone with a science degree could go to space by 2000. He was wrong—but got me inspired anyway.”

What Lewis’s colleagues say: “Jason is a world-leading, visionary radiochemist of international acclaim. His cancer research has far-reaching implications for the study and practice of oncology, and its impact can only be expected to grow.”—Hedvig Hricak, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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