Krishnan Venkatakrishnan

Biography:

Dr. Krishnan Venkatakrishnan is a Full Professor in the Faculty of  Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, an Affiliate Scientist at Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital (SMH), and a member of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Technology (iBEST). With decades of experience in nano fabrication and its application in cancer Nano-medicine, Dr. Venkatakrishnan’s research on nano and quantum sensors   has resulted in 200+ high impact factor journal publications and 10 US/worldwide granted patents. He has also been working on using these novel nanosensors for clinical applications such as cancer diagnosis for the past decade. His groundbreaking research has been published in top-tier journals (his research group published 66+ high impact-factor journals in last 6 years), such as Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Science, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Nano, Small, Small Methods, Nano-letters, Nanoscale Horizon, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Applied Materials Today). His research group is currently working on the development of  Multi Cancer Early Diagnosis (MCED) platform called Oncoprofiler using Liquid Biopsy. He is a recipient of several Researcher Award. He has served as a program and award reviewer for several Canadian and international agencies. Over the last 6 years, his lab has graduated over 25 graduate students. Many of his PhD graduates hold faculty positions at Canadian and US institutions and are research staff in top institutions such as MIT, Imperial College etc. Many of his PhD students held prestigious Ontario Trillium Scholarships and secured NSERC PGS scholarship. He has made significant contributions to nanomaterials fabrication, and manufacturing of scalable sensors for cancer diagnosis and therapy. Dr. Venkatakrishnan leads several labs, including a Class-II nano-bio interface lab, an ultrashort laser fabrication lab at TMU and Biomedical research facility at St. Michael’s Hospital (SMH), Unity Health Toronto, Canada.