Dean Franklin Young Investigator Award
Awarded through the American Physiological Society
Congratulations to the 2020 recipient of the Dean Franklin Award, Ashley Walker, PhD from the University of Oregon! Ashley's primary research interest is vascular aging and the increased risk for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
The Dean Franklin Young Investigator Award was established by Data Sciences International (DSI) in recognition of Franklin’s role in the development of instrumentation to monitor physiological function in conscious research animals and humans. Concepts originally formulated by Dean Franklin continue to serve as the inspiration behind many of DSI’s most technologically advanced physiological monitoring systems developed for today’s nonclinical research. The intent of the award is to recognize a post-doctoral scientist or junior faculty member who is pursuing in vivo physiology research and is in the process of establishing an independent laboratory.