Dr Shayanti Mukherjee is a Senior Research Scientist and heads the Translational Tissue Engineering Laboratory at Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University. She is the recipient of the prestigious J&J WiSTEM2D Scholar and is an Emerging Leader in the Women’s health theme at Hudson Institute. She completed her PhD at the National University of Singapore where her work contributed to the growing body of nanostructured biomaterials design for the repair and regeneration of soft tissue. Currently, her research merges multiple disciplines to understand how chronic pelvic floor disorders manifest after childbirth injury as well as develop novel cell-based tissue-engineered therapies for pelvic reconstruction in order to advance maternal urogynaecological health. To this end, Dr Mukherjee has designed novel tissue-engineered surgical constructs using electrospinning, 3D Printing, Melt electro-writing as well as bioink formulations for stem cell bioprinting. Her research utilises small and large pre-clinical models to determine host foreign body response and understand critical pathways that determine the fate of implants.