Sherry Lynn Voytik-Harbin is a professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Basic Medical Sciences at Purdue University.
As a senior at Central High School, she won the State Scholarly Writing Contest[1] and was the recipient of a Storer Scholarship for Indiana University Bloomington.
She made contact with Pete Konrad and they discussed opportunities in biomedical engineering which convinced her to enroll at the institution.
"[10] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Harbin was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for "developing collagen formulations that rapidly self-assemble at physiological conditions into a mechanically and proteolytic stable material that promotes tissue regeneration.
"[11] The following year, she collaborated with Stacey Halum to lead a research team in develop tissue-engineered component tissue replacements that support the reconstruction of the larynx.