The creation of novel devices is a cornerstone of medical innovation. In Sunnybrook Research Institute’s device development laboratory—Canada’s first of this scope based in a hospital—scientists and engineers are designing and producing complex medical devices under highly controlled conditions. The aims are to design more effective and safer ways to detect disease, deliver therapy and guide interventions. Devices are then tested for proof of principle and, if successful, clinically, in collaboration with other researchers and clinicians. Where appropriate, our aim is to commercialize the devices we invent, so we can move them into the medical marketplace to benefit patients.
Main goals are as follows:
- To accelerate development of clinically relevant medical devices for large-scale or orphan applications
- To design, fabricate, test and validate candidate devices efficiently
- To create a centre of expertise for teaching skills related to device development, preclinical testing and validation
- To provide facilities and expertise that enable commercialization of new devices
Facilities within the device development lab include the advanced machine shop, with specialized equipment like a waterjet cutter; 3-D printers; a clean room; a catheter testing area and micro-machining equipment.
Devices of interest are, broadly classified, imaging detectors, therapy delivery vehicles, therapy-guidance technologies and therapy-localizing devices.
Equipment
Facilities and equipment within the device development lab include the following:
- Advanced machine shop (5-axis Mach 4 waterjet cutter, computer numerical controlled machines)
- Rapid prototyping room (stereolithography rapid prototyper)
- Laser fabrication room (excimer laser micro-machining system, a laser micro-welder)
- Clean rooms (thin film deposition systems, photolithographic mask aligner, wire and eutectic bonding systems)
- Catheter fabrication equipment (catheter braider, horizontal laminator, catheter thermal station, catheter hole punch, catheter testing system)
- Processing room (dicing saw, lapping system, parylene coater)
- Radio frequency room (microscopic probe station, network analyzer, signal/spectrum analyzer, logic analyzer, printed circuit board computer-aided design software, printed circuit board rework station, mixed signal oscilloscope)
- Quality control room (atomic force microscope, stereo microscopes)
Devices of interest are, broadly classified, imaging detectors, therapy delivery vehicles, therapy-guidance technologies and therapy-localizing devices.
For information on pricing, please contact Aaron Boyes