Dr Navid Kashaninejad received his Ph.D. degree at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, under the prestigious SINGA scholarship from A*STAR. Immediately after his PhD, Dr Kashaninejad accepted a teaching-focused position at a university, delivering biomedical engineering courses. He then moved into industry as a Senior Product Development Engineer, gaining first-hand experience in commercialisation pathways, intellectual property processes, and the development of transformative, market-ready technologies. He subsequently returned to academia as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked exclusively on cancer modelling and tumour-on-a-chip systems. Notably, in 2016—when only a few researchers globally were working in this area—he developed Organ Tumour-on-a-Chip platforms for chemosensitivity assays, applying his microfluidics and surface engineering expertise to advance cancer diagnosis and treatment strategies. In 2021, he was awarded the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA). He is currently a Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Built Environment (EBE) at Griffith University and a full member of the Queensland Quantum and Advanced Technologies Research Institute (QUATRI), leading multidisciplinary research in micro/nanofabrication, surface microfluidics, and advanced sensing applications.