Aakash Nagarapu is a 4th year undergraduate at Saint Louis University studying biomedical engineering on the pre-med track at the College of Science and Engineering. He is the President of MEDLaunch 2022-23, and he participated in the program as the VP of Recruitment and Retention last year and as a team member and CSO of PediaBright in 2020-21. After graduation, he plans to matriculate to the Saint Louis University School of Medicine on the M.D. track with a special interest in neonatology/perinatology. He credits MEDLaunch for providing the space for him to build the skills and network to one day develop a regenerative engineering approach to curing Type 1 Diabetes.