Stavroula Sofou is Professor in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). She is a member of the Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Program at the JHU Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, has a secondary appointment in the Department of Oncology, and is an associate member at the Institute of NanoBioTechnology (INBT). Sofou is most known for her non-traditional approaches to combat difficult-to-kill cancers in diffusion-limited environments. Sofou’s research interests range from fundamental studies of lipid bilayers to applications of biomaterials for drug delivery (alpha-particle emitters, chemotherapeutics, gene therapy). She harnesses intermolecular and interfacial interactions of self-assembling materials in biological settings. Combining this knowledge with engineering principles, she designs devices to promote human health. Sofou earned her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Columbia University, held a post-doctoral fellowship in Medical Physics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and served as an assistant professor at NYU-Poly (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering) and associate professor at Rutgers University.