Rajini Haraksingh is a Trinidadian human geneticist and Lecturer in Biotechnology at the UWI St. Augustine. She leads a research group in human genomics, bioinformatics, and precision medicine, and teaches in the UWI’s Biotechnology programmes. Her research focuses on developing and implementing cutting-edge technologies for studying the human genome, and for discovering novel genetic contributors to various human diseases including cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In particular, her group is focused on applying these technologies for improving diagnostics and therapeutics in Caribbean populations for both noncommunicable diseases and rare disease. She received two Bachelors’ degrees from MIT in Mathematics and Biology, a PhD in Human Genetics from Yale, and postdoctoral training at Stanford in Genomics and Personalized Medicine.