Jens Rueter is the Chief Medical Officer of The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) and Medical Director for MCGI. Rueter came to JAX from Eastern Maine Medical Center Cancer Care (EMMC) in Brewer, ME, where he was the medical director for EMMC’s Translational Oncology Program and the EMMC Biobank. He has been a hematologist/oncologist at EMMC Cancer Care since 2010, and a member of the JAX adjunct faculty since 2012. Prior to joining JAX, Rueter collaborated with several JAX investigators and technicians on developing new approaches to treating cancers while advancing translational research at EMMC.

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.