Manas Ranjan Gartia is an associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, and a fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He earned his PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013). He is especially recognized for label-free biosensing technologies and for his significant contributions to cancer diagnostics and metabolomic imaging. Dr Gartia’s work exemplifies how engineering innovations can directly transform life sciences and healthcare applications. His research focuses on biomedical imaging, spatial lipidomics, cancer biology, and biophotonics and biotechnology.Ram V. Devireddy is the DeSoto Parish Chapter University alumni professor and the Louisiana Land & Exploration Company endowed chair professor of mechanical engineering at LSU. He earned his PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota (1999). He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is widely recognized for his contributions to biothermal engineering and bioprinting technologies. Dr Devireddy’s work bridges mechanical engineering principles with biological applications, making him a key figure in advancing tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. His research interests include heat and mass transport in biosystems, stem cell differentiation, tissue engineering, 3D bioprinting, and next-generation sequencing.