Dr. Akos Vertes is a Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. His research interests encompass the development of new analytical techniques applicable in diverse fields of chemistry, biology, and medicine. Research areas include single cell and subcellular analysis, high throughput, and ultrasensitive methods applicable in systems biology, proteomics and metabolomics, and new methods for molecular imaging of biological tissues. His research has been presented in over 200 peer-reviewed publications (with h > 55 and over 10,000 citations), and in two books. He is a co-inventor on 19 patents. His patents have been licensed and commercialized by multiple industrial partners. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and received the Distinguished Researcher Award at GWU, the 2012 Hillebrand Prize and the Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Scholarship. He is a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He served as Visiting Faculty at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, an MTA Distinguished Guest Scientist at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Hungary, Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, and twice as a Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland.