Netra Unni Rajesh, from Toronto, Canada is pursuing a PhD in bioengineering at the Stanford School of Engineering and School of Medicine. She graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Science, specializing in Biomedical Engineering. In Joseph DeSimone's lab, Netra works at the intersection of materials science and medicine to design novel, 3D-printed devices for transdermal delivery and diagnostics. Through research internships at the Koch Institute at MIT and the MEMS Lab at Caltech, she developed technologies for cancer drug delivery and vaccine production. An advocate for STEM outreach, she has done a TEDx talk titled, “Why students need science and technology.” Netra is a Knight-Hennessy scholar, a recipient of the U of T Student Leadership Award and was recognized as a 3M National Student Fellow.