Dr. Aleksander S. Popel is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Medicine, and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of expertise are angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis, immuno-oncology, systems biology, systems pharmacology, and discovery and development of peptide therapeutic agents. He received his Ph.D. in Biofluid Mechanics from Moscow University. He served as a Visiting Professor at MIT, Harvard University, and Imperial College, U.K. He is a recipient of the Eugene M. Landis Award from the Microcirculatory Society. He delivered keynote addresses for The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) European Union Physiome Project and Next-Generation Integrated Simulation of Living Matter Project in Japan; he was C. Forbes Dewey Distinguished Lecturer in Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered A.C. Suhren Lecture at Tulane University, Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Distinguished Lecturer at Temple University, and Kawasaki Medical Society Lecturer in Japan. Dr. Popel mentored over 70 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows; many of his trainees are leaders in the field of biomedical engineering and systems biology in academia and pharmaceutical industry. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, American Heart Association, American Physiological Society, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and an Inaugural Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society.