Ms. Rasooly is the Founder and CEO/ President of PuraCath Medical — a medical device startup in home dialysis and was spun out of Stanford University during her graduate school education in 2012. Ms. Rasooly has over twelve years of experience in R&D in medical device and biotech industries. She is focused on revolutionizing the dialysis industry and bringing her novel home dialysis technology to make dialysis at home safer and more affordable. Prior to being the Founder and CEO of PuraCath Medical, she was a researcher at the renowned Molecular Imaging Laboratory at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she worked on stem cell therapy and imaging projects. Julia has obtained a B.Sc. in Bioengineering from the University of California Berkeley, an M.S. in Bioengineering from Stanford University, an M.S. in Medicine from Stanford University, and a Certificate from the Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). She took a “leave of absence” from her PhD program in Bioengineering from Stanford University to grow PuraCath on a full-time basis. She has won multiple honors and awards, including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Scholar, the National Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, the National Coca-Cola Scholarship, and multiple other governmental grants and awards for start-up ventures. She also is the co-founder and President of two non-profits focused on tech entrepreneurship as well as women entrepreneurs in healthcare.