Sanjay K. Jain, MBBS
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Elected 2023

Dr. Jain is Professor of Pediatrics, Radiology & Radiological Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research, an interdisciplinary research center. Dr. Jain is also the Vice Chair for Basic & Translational Research, Department of Pediatrics and a member of the Johns Hopkins Center for TB Research. From 2014-2022, Dr. Jain led the Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellowship program and is the PI of the NIH-funded T32 grant that supports the program. His primary research interests include microbial pathogenesis and the development of novel molecular imaging technologies (CT, PET, SPECT, MRI) for infections. Dr. Jain leads a NIH-funded laboratory that conducts animal and human studies to develop imaging approaches to understand disease pathogenesis (e.g. study antimicrobial pharmacokinetics at infection sites) and pathogen-specific imaging diagnostics. Several technologies developed in his laboratory are being tested in first-in-human studies. Notably, he is also the recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award. Dr. Jain is the past chair (2014-2021) of the Infectious Diseases subgroup and current board member of the World Molecular Imaging Society. He serves as a reviewer for multiple scientific journals and NIH study panels.