Medical Technology Advance Program (MTAP) Team

Dr. George Wodicka is the director of the Medical Technology Advance Program (MTAP) and provides overall leadership to the MTAP and leads the integration of innovative Purdue resources and industrial partnerships into the Indiana CTSI framework. Dr. Wodicka’s expertise and active research applies acoustical techniques to investigate problems in clinical medicine.
Email: wodicka@purdue.edu

Dr. Andrew Brightman serves as the bioethics liaison to the Indiana CTSI at Purdue. Dr. Brightman also provides in-kind guidance as part of the PDT, Think Tanks and MTAP. Dr. Brightman’s role is to provide researchers and educators access to research ethics education, bioethics information resources, and connections to other bioethicists, subject advocates and regulatory experts. Dr. Brightman is Professor of Engineering Practice in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.
Email: aob@purdue.edu

Dr. Aaron Lottes is the Regulatory expert of Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) of the MTAP. He will provide guidance for regulatory pathways of biomedical devices. Dr. Lottes is Associate Professor of Engineering Practice in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.
Email: lottes@purdue.edu

Dr. Abigail Cox, serves as a committee member of the MTAP providing guidance for biomedical device development using experimental models in the laboratory setting. Dr. Cox is a board-certified veterinary pathologist, Associate Professor and Director of the Histology Research Laboratory in the Department of Comparative Pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Email: adcox@purdue.edu

Dr. Kinam Park serves as a committee member of the MTAP. His expertise is in Nano/Micro particles, polymer micelles, drug-eluting stents, fast dissolving tablets and smart hydrogels. Dr. Park is Showalter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Pharmaceutics and specializes in targeted drug delivery applications. Dr. Park provides nanomedicine guidance for Indiana CTSI investigators through MTAP.
Email: kpark@purdue.edu

Bill Schoenlein is a preclinical studies manager in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and provides guidance to investigators developing experimental approaches to test novel biomedical devices. He works on studies with industrial sponsors to test and has experience developing intravascular devices to monitor or change the physiology of the human body. 
Email: schoen@purdue.edu

Kirk Foster serves as a committee member of the MTAP. He has expertise in electronics design for biomedical devices.  He is Senior Research Engineer for the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.
Email: foster@purdue.edu

Melissa Bible is the preclinical laboratory specialist for the MTAP. Ms. Bible works with investigators in preclinical study design research projects. Ms. Bible is Research Associate in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.
Email: fox0@purdue.edu