Prof. Elizabeth Topp named as Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor in Chemical Engineering

NIBRT Principal Investigator Prof. Liz Topp has been named as the Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor in Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Prof. Topp is a professor of industrial and molecular pharmaceuticals and chemical engineering and is also the director of the William D. and Sherry L. Young Institute for the Advanced Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals. She co-founded the industry-university consortium LyoHUB for advancing pharmaceutical lyophilization technology. Prof. Topp has been widely recognized for her contributions to the field of research.

The Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor in Chemical Engineering professorship was established by Dr. D. Edward Nichols in 1998 to honor the memory of his wife, Maxine Spencer Nichols, a 1949 chemical engineering alumna.