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Jens Rueter, M.D.

Jens Rueter, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer, JAX; Medical Director, MCGI

Dr. Rueter is the chief medical officer of The Jackson Laboratory, medical director of the Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative, and associate director for Translational Education at JAX Cancer Center. He provides direction, leadership and strategy for JAX’s translational and clinical research activities and clinically oriented operations.

Since 2010, Dr. Rueter has practiced and continues to practice as a hematologist/oncologist at Northern Light Cancer Institute. He joined JAX in August 2016 to build and lead the Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative. 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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