This webinar presentation, led by Sufi Zafar, recipient of the 2021 APS Distinguished Lectureship Award for outstanding contributions in industry, will focus on her career pathway in an industrial research laboratory, where she applied her physics background to resolve important and urgent global problems. She will discuss her experience in initiating and executing a project on innovative biosensing devices with a viable path from lab to the market. Dr. Zafar will also discuss how her research was licensed to a medical diagnostic company (NanoDx Inc.) for commercialization rights, and how these devices can be used in a variety of additional contexts, including sustainable agriculture.