Background
Jain, Rakesh K. was born on December 18, 1950 in Lalitpur, India. Came to the United States, 1972. Son of Sanat Kumar and Kailash W. Jain.
chemical engineering and tumor biology educator
Jain, Rakesh K. was born on December 18, 1950 in Lalitpur, India. Came to the United States, 1972. Son of Sanat Kumar and Kailash W. Jain.
Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1972. Master of Science in Chemical Engineering, University Delaware, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering, University Delaware, 1975.
Assistant professor chemical and biomedical engineering Columbia University, New York City, 1976-1978. From assistant to associate professor chemical and biomedical engineering Garnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1978-1983, professor, 1983-1991. Andrew Werk Cook professor tumor biology department radiation oncology Harvard Medical School, Boston, since 1991.
Director Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology Massachusetts General Hospital Home Cancer Center Massachusetts General Hospital, since 1991. Professor Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology division health science and technical Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1991. Visiting professor chemical engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983.
Visiting professor bioengineering University California, San Diego, LaJolla, 1984. Visiting professor radiology Stanford (California) University Medical School, 1984. Visiting professor pathophysiology, University Mainz, Germany, 1990-1991.
Visiting professor surgical research University Munich, 1991. Vice chairman Gordon Conference Microcirculation, 1993. Consultant Laboratory Pathophysiology, National Cancer Institute, 1976-1984, DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical, Wilmington, Delaware, 1988-1990, Hybritech-Lily, San Diego, 1988-1993.
Member advisory board Pittsburgh biomedical Development Corporation, 1989-1991. Member radiation study section National Institutes of Health, 1991-1994. Board directors American Cancer Society.
B.F. Ruth lecturer Iowa State University, Ames, 1983. Allan P. Colburn lecturer University Delaware, Newark, 1983. Hugh C. Muldoon lecturer Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, 1986.
Kurt Wohl lecturer University Delaware, 1992.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Institute Biological and Medical Engineers (founder). Member American Institute of Electrical Engineers (chairman national planning committee area 15e-engineering fundamentals in life science 1981-1984, chairman technical sections life science area 1976-1982, 84-86, co-editor American Institute of Chemical Engineers Symposium Series 1983, 86), American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Engineering, American Association Cancer Research, North America Society Biorheology (chairman membership committee 1988-1990), North America Hyperthermia Society, New York Academy of Sciences (chairman thermal characteristics of tumors conference 1979, guest editor Annals New York Academy of Sciences 1980), International Institute Microcirculation (board directors 1987-1991, co-chairman cancer cells and tumor microcirculation conference 1989, Research award 1984), Microcirculation Society (chairman membership committee 1986-1988, nomination committee since 1993), biomedical Engineering Society (conference chairman annual meeting 1987, chairman meeting programming committee 1987-1990), Radiation Research Society, Sigma Xi, Institute Medicine.
Married Janet Carrick.