Layla Khalifehzadeh is an assistant professor of chemical engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy. She received the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health during her postdoctoral research at Stanford University. Her interdisciplinary research lies at the interface of engineering and translational medicine and focuses on development of polymer-based, wireless, implantable or wearable bioelectronics for precision health.