The Purdue University Board of Trustees approved Alyssa Panitch as the Leslie A. Geddes Professor in Biomedical Engineering.
Panitch came to Purdue in 2006 as an associate professor of biomedical engineering. She has been associate head of research for the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue since 2009. Prior to coming to Purdue, she was assistant professor and associate professor of bioengineering at Arizona State University.
Her research focuses on designing biological and synthetic materials for drug delivery and tissue engineering as well as developing peptide-based pharmaceuticals for restoring normal healing of vascular, neural and fibrotic diseases.