“After operating for more than a decade in a much smaller facility, MED Institute now has the space and technical resources needed to dramatically expand its role of helping bring the most advanced medical technology in the world to Cook Medical products for improved treatment of patients around the world,” said Neal Fearnot, president of MED Institute. “We are thrilled with our new facility and especially pleased that we were able to work with city officials to get our street officially renamed Geddes Way to honor Dr. Leslie Geddes, whose work in biomedical engineering at Purdue has inspired so many within the Cook organization.”

More than 20 BME alumni work at MED Institute, and as part of the dedication all of those present who were former students of Professor Geddes were invited up front -- and the line of people not only filled the front, but curved around to the side of the room.  The street naming not only honored Geddes, but also reinforced the long and vital relationship between the Cook Group and the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.  

The new facility is the former Great Lakes Corporation headquarters, a landmark in West Lafayette.  The building offers a unique, visionary architecture that perfectly complements the work done by MED Institute’s scientists and engineers. The new facility offers 92,000 sq. feet of floor space on four floors – more than doubling MED Institute’s earlier building which had 28,000 sq. ft – and has been completely renovated to include high-tech laboratory testing, analysis and fabrication equipment, modern computing and telecommunications equipment and a full complement of offices andmeeting rooms. 

For more information, you can read about the dedication at the Cook Medical site, at the University News Service, or in the Journal & Courier.