Amina A. Qutub graduated with a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Rice University in 1999. She received her Ph.D. degree in bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), in 2004, under the mentorship of C. Anthony Hunt. For her doctoral work, she researched the blood-brain barrier, using computational and experimental approaches. She is a postdoctoral fellow in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, under the mentorship of Aleksander S. Popel. Her research focuses on modeling hypoxic response and sprouting angiogenesis.