Speakers

Professor Jason S. Lewis holds the Emily Tow Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), where he is Deputy Director of the Sloan Kettering Institute overseeing Science Education and Training and an expert in radiochemistry and molecular imaging. He earned degrees in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of Essex and University of Kent, with postdoctoral work at Washington University. He joined MSK in 2008. A former president of WMIS and SRS, he is a Fellow of six professional societies and recipient of numerous awards, including the SNMMI Welch and Aebersold Awards, WMIS Gold Medal, and ACS Seaborg Award. He leads a research program on radiopharmaceuticals and imaging agents, holds NIH and NCI grants, and directs multiple training programs, with over 350 publications in the field.

Amy Q. Shen is Provost and Professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan, where she leads the Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit. Her research focuses on microfluidics, biosensing, and lab-on-a-chip technologies at the bio/nano interface. She develops platforms that integrate nanoplasmonic, electrochemical, and polymer-based approaches for rapid and ultrasensitive health diagnostics, and leverages microfluidics to inform device design and function. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Society of Rheology, and has received several prestigious honors, including the NSF CAREER Award and a Fulbright Scholarship. Amy serves as Associate Editor for Soft Matter and is on the editorial boards of ACS Sensors and Biomicrofluidics.