David D'Argenio is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern and holder of the Chonette Chair of Biomedical Technology. He has been a member of the Biomedical Engineering Faculty at USC since 1979. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Trustee of the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles, and a member of the FDA Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology. Since 1985 Professor D'Argenio has served as co-director of the Biomedical Modeling and Simulations Resource at USC, which develops advanced modeling methods for studying biological systems. His research includes: modeling in anticancer and antiviral drug development; systems biology of drug action; population modeling of PK/PD polymorphisms; experiment design for modeling sparse data systems; and development of software systems for modeling, simulation, design and analysis in PK/PD.