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Jens Rueter

Chief Medical Officer, Jackson Laboratory & Medical Director – Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative, The Jackson Laboratory (USA)


Dr. Rueter is the Chief Medical Officer at The Jackson Laboratory and Medical Director for Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative (MCGI). He is also the Associate Director for Translational Education at the JAX Cancer Center. As a member of the JAX senior management team, he works with a number of JAX clinical genomics and education experts as well as several national leaders on advancing the field of Precision Medicine with the goal of individualizing cancer treatments for individual patients and improving their outcomes.

Previously, Dr. Rueter was a hematologist/oncologist at EMMC Cancer Care and the Medical Director for EMMC Biobank and Translational Research in Brewer, Maine. After graduating from medical school in Berlin, Germany, Rueter completed his residency in internal medicine at Tulane University and fellowship training in hematology/oncology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jens Rueter logo

Jens Rueter

Chief Medical Officer, Jackson Laboratory & Medical Director – Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative, The Jackson Laboratory (USA)


The Jackson Laboratory, The Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative logo

Dr. Rueter is the Chief Medical Officer at The Jackson Laboratory and Medical Director for Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative (MCGI). He is also the Associate Director for Translational Education at the JAX Cancer Center. As a member of the JAX senior management team, he works with a number of JAX clinical genomics and education experts as well as several national leaders on advancing the field of Precision Medicine with the goal of individualizing cancer treatments for individual patients and improving their outcomes.

Previously, Dr. Rueter was a hematologist/oncologist at EMMC Cancer Care and the Medical Director for EMMC Biobank and Translational Research in Brewer, Maine. After graduating from medical school in Berlin, Germany, Rueter completed his residency in internal medicine at Tulane University and fellowship training in hematology/oncology at the University of Pennsylvania.


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