Aleksander Popel

Aleksander S. Popel is also a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds joint appointments as Professor of Oncology in the School of Medicine, and Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering in the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. He is a member of the Institute for Nanobiotechnology, In Vivo Cellular Molecular Imaging Center, and the Sydney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. His areas of expertise are angiogenesis and microcirculation, systems biology, computational medicine & biology. He published over 300 scientific papers in these areas. He served as a Visiting Professor at MIT and Harvard University. He is the 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. 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. He has been a member of editorial boards of biological and biomedical engineering journals. He served in an advisory role to biotech and pharmaceutical companies. He regularly serves on grant review boards and advisory panels at the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and other US and international funding agencies. His work on angiogenesis at the Johns Hopkins University has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Safeway Breast Cancer Foundation, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation, the Coulter Foundation Translational Partnership, and the Edward N. and Della L. Thome Memorial Foundation, Award in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Research.