Celebrating the 70(th) birthday of Valery V. Tuchin.

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Valery V. Tuchin was born February 4, 1944. He received his MS degree in Radiophysics and Electronics (1966), Candidate of Sciences degree in Optics (1973), and Doctor of Science degree in Quantum Radiophysics (1982), all from Saratov State University (SSU), Saratov, Russia, where he continued his scientific career and still holds his primary appointment. He is currently a Professor and the Chair of Optics and Biophotonics Department at the SSU. He heads the Laboratory of Laser Diagnostics of Technical and Living Systems of Precision Mechanics and Control Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences and Multidisciplinary Laboratory on Biophotonics of Tomsk State University. He served as a Dean of the Physics College of SSU from 1982 to 1989. Currently he is a director of the Research-Educational Institute of Optics and Biophotonics at SSU. Prof. Tuchin's research interests are focused on biophotonics, tissue optics and laser medicine, tissue optical clearing, physics of optical and laser measurements, biosensing, photonic crystal fibers, nanobiophotonics, and theranostics. He has authored more than 50 patents and 400 peer-reviewed papers and books, including well-known table textbooks such as Tissue Optics: Light Scattering Methods and Instruments for Medical Diagnosis (SPIE Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering TT38, 2000), Handbook of Optical Biomedical Diagnostics (SPIE Press, PM107, 2002; translated to Russian, Fizmatlit, Moscow, 2007, 2 Vols.), Optical Clearing of Tissues and Blood (SPIE Press, PM 154, 2005), and Handbook of Biophotonics (WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, 2011–2012, 3 Vols.; J. Popp, A. Chiou, and S. H. Heinemann – co-editors). Prof. Tuchin is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and the International Academy of Information, member of SPIE, OSA, and IEEE. He was awarded Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation (1999), SPIE Fellow (2004), SPIE Educator Award (2007), and Chime Bell Prize of Hubei Province, China (2014). He was a Vice-President of Russian Photobiology Society (2005–2011). He is a FiDiPro Professor of University of Oulu (Finland) (2011–2014), Guest Professor of HUST (Wuhan) and Tianjin Universities of China, and Adjunct Professor of the University of Limerick (Ireland) and National University of Ireland (Galway). Prof. Tuchin is an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomedical Photonics & Engineering, associated-editor-in-chief of J. Innovative Optical Health Sciences (JIOHS), vice editor-in-chief of the News of Saratov University. Ser. Physics; and associated editor for number of journal. He is founder, chair or co-chair of international conferences such as Saratov Fall Meeting (since 1996), Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine, SPIE, Photonics West (co-chairs: J. G. Fujimoto and J. A. Izatt) (since 1997), Dynamics and Fluctuations in Biomedical Photonics, SPIE, Photonics West (co-chairs: D.D. Duncan, K. V. Larin, M. J. Leahy, and R. K. Wang) (since 2005), Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine (PIBM), China (co-chairs: Q. Luo and L. V. Wang) (since 2001), and Biophotonics: Photonic Solutions for Better Health Care, SPIE Photonics Europe (co-chairs: J. Popp, W. Drexler, D. L. Matthews, and F. Pavone) (since 2008). Prof. Tuchin currently teaches courses on tissue optics, introduction to biophotonics, laser and fiber optics for biomedicine, optical measurements in biomedicine, optical cytometry, and microspectral analysis for biomedicine for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Since 1992, he has been the instructor of SPIE, OSA and IEEE short courses on biomedical optics for an international audience of engineers, students and medical doctors. On behalf of the editorial board of JBP, his colleagues and friends we congratulate Prof. Tuchin with these outstanding achievements and look forward to future discoveries and exciting scientific developments. Kirill Larin University of Houston, USA Kirill V. Larin is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston and the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and chapters in 9 books on Biomedical Optics. Dr. Larin has received numerous awards including Presidential Award from Russian President Boris Yeltsin, W. Coulter Young Investigator Translation Award, ONR YIP, and Herbert Allen Award from American Society for Mechanical Engineers. Dr. Larin is also an Instructor for short courses on Tissue Optics and Biophotonics for SPIE, IEEE, and OSA. He was elected to SPIE Fellow in 2015.