Niraj Mehta

Niraj is a Chemistry PhD candidate at Stanford University. He was born in India and attended school in Pune, India. He did his undergraduate studies at UCLA, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, studying the continuous manufacturing of pharmaceutical drugs.

At Stanford, under the mentorship of Dr. Elizabeth Sattely, he studies the production of therapeutic small-molecules in plants and ultimately aims to enable the transfer of plant molecule biosynthetic pathways into scaleable heterologous systems like yeast for sustainable, large-scale production.