Franklin Research Lab
The Franklin Research Lab (FRL) employs optics, engineering, and biology to produce the next generation of materials and devices for fundamental medical science and clinical translation. We also partner with industry leading semiconductor and health companies to develop and leverage new sensor technologies.
Advanced Wearables
Wearable health devices for advanced hemodynamic monitoring, such as blood pressure, cardiac output, and systemic vascular resistance. Applications include our fundamental understanding of heart disease and commercial/clinical health telemetry.
Wireless Implants
Wireless implants for physiological monitoring and closed-loop stimuli/feedback. Applications include disease models, animal behavioral studies and neuromodulation.
Biophotonic Materials
Exploration of novel materials, such as liquid crystal, which can self-assemble into bioresorbable temperature sensors with applications in imaging and photodynamic therapy.
Through the multidisciplinary study of these bioelectronic and biophotonic systems, we aim to shed light on unexplored aspects of human physiology.
News
2022
- Megh published an article on pulse oximetry in JACCS: Advances
- FRL highlighted in Groundbreakers Season 2, Episode 3:
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/tackling-heart-failure-dose-technology-groundbreakers-s2-ep3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix29DFqeuN0&ab_channel=UniversityofToronto - Anat Usatinsky wins the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Health Trainee Day Poster Competition
- Jonathan Wu wins an EPIC-AT Fellowship
- Dr. Franklin highlighted in UCF Today:
https://www.ucf.edu/news/recent-ucf-graduates-have-accepted-tenure-track-positions-at-top-universities/ - Jonathan Wu wins an Ontario Graduate Student Scholarship – Masters award
- Megh Rathod wins a Translational Biology and Engineering Program (TBEP) 3 Minute Thesis Award
- FRL wins an EMH Seed Grant in collaboration with Alexander Koven, MD and Monica Farcus, MD
- Megh Rathod wins a TRANSFORM HF Masters Trainee Award:
https://transformhf.ca/2022-heart-failure-trainees/ - Jason Park wins a Translational Biology and Engineering Program (TBEP) Summer Scholarship award
- Haolin Liu receives a summer Engineering Science Research Opportunities Program (ESROP) Scholarship
- Jason Park joins the lab and receives a summer Engineering Science Research Opportunities Program (ESROP) Scholarship
- Hannah Kim joins the lab and receives a summer Engineering Science Research Opportunities Program (ESROP) Scholarship
- Nicholas Chan joins the lab and receives a summer Engineering Science Research Opportunities Program (ESROP) Scholarship
- Alexander Koven wins the Dr. Allan S. Tauber Graduate Student Award and the Draxis Health Inc. Surgeon Scientist Fellowship
- FRL wins a TRANFORM HF Seed Grant:
https://transformhf.ca/237154-2/ - Alexander Koven wins an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters award
- Megh Rathod wins an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters award
2021
- Alexander Koven, MD joins the lab
- Megh Rathod, Anat Usatinsky, and Jonathan Wu joins the lab and the Biomedical Engineering Masters Program
- Haolin Liu joins the lab and receives a summer Engineering Science Research Opportunities Program (ESROP) Scholarship
- The Franklin Research Lab (FRL) starts at the University of Toronto and Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research (TRCHR):
https://discover.bme.utoronto.ca/daniel-franklin-joins-bme-tbep-as-assistant-professor/
https://tedrogersresearch.ca/2021/09/daniel-franklin-chair/
“The way medicine approaches human suffering has always been determined by the technology available at any given time.”
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
Office Hours
All the time
Location
University of Toronto
Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research
661 University Ave, 14TH Floor, RM 1434
Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1M1
Contact
416-946-0955
Dan.Franklin@utoronto.ca
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