Dr. Nikki Weckman (ISTEP, ChemE) is the Paul Cadario Chair in Global Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on developing the next generation of point-of-care technologies for diagnosing diseases and monitoring outbreaks of drug-resistant infections. She is particularly interested in developing low cost and sustainable diagnostics that can help to improve health equity. Dr. Weckman joined U of T after completing postdoctoral research at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University and the Cavendish Physics Department, University of Cambridge. Before her postdoctoral work, Dr. Weckman obtained her PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, her MEng in Chemical Engineering from McGill University and her BASc in Nanotechnology Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Beyond her academic work, Dr. Weckman is co-founder of the start-up 52 North Health, where she is working in the medical diagnostic space to develop low-cost digitally linked technologies that help improve health outcomes and health equity for people receiving chemotherapy.