March 3, 2006

Jain receives Distinguished Service Award

Rakesh K. Jain, PhD, director of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory of Tumor Biology at the MGH Department of Radiation Oncology, recently received the Distinguished Service Award at the Nature Biotechnology journal's Annual Winter Symposium in Miami, Fla. The award recognizes exceptional contributions to science that have helped biological research and its practitioners to advance such work more broadly.

Jain is world-renowned as a pioneer in the fields of tumor biology and angiogenesis. For the past three decades, he has championed the idea that a solid tumor is an abnormal organ — not just a collection of cancer cells. Jain has developed a number of sophisticated imaging technologies to help better understand the inner workings of tumors.

"I am greatly humbled by this recognition," says Jain. "I could not have done this work without the help of many others, and I wish to share this honor with my colleagues and collaborators."