Toni Wilkinson is a PhD student in Professor Elliot Botvinick’s laboratory. She is a nontraditional student that pursued her biomedical engineering interests after a long and fruitful career as a successful entrepreneur and business owner. Motivated by a desire to improve health care technologies using light, she specifically decided to go back to school to train at the Beckman Laser Institute and biomedical engineering department in order to innovate in the medical device space. Her current efforts include serving as innovator and project lead in the advancing of the laboratory’s wearable detection system by adding ketone and insulin monitoring to prevent the onset of diabetic ketoacidosis in type 1 diabetics, followed by clinical study of these technologies in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, Australia.
