Peter T. Kissinger

PETER T. KISSINGER, Ph.D., is Chairman and CEO of Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. and Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Dr. Kissinger received a B.S. in Chemistry (1966) from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry (1970) from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the faculty at Purdue in 1975, Kissinger was a Research Associate at the University of Kansas (1970-1972) and an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University (1972-1975). He founded BASi in 1974. Headquartered in West Lafayette, Indiana, BASi also has operations in Evansville; Baltimore; McMinnville, OR; and the U.K. The company carries out bioanalytical, toxicology and early clinical research and develops research instruments and software for pharmaceutical research. BASi’s Vetronics Division manufactures instrumentation for veterinary medicine. Dr. Kissinger’s academic research has involved the study of modern liquid chromatography techniques, and in vivo methodology for drug metabolism and the neurosciences. Dr. Kissinger has published more than 230 scientific papers and is a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

From Pete’s unpublished “History of Analytical Chemistry at Purdue”

“. . . LC/MSMS then made painless sampling of laboratory animals feasible for pharmacokinetics…..once that was feasible, we could do pharmacodynamics as well on line, fully automated. This then speeds up drug development substantially and saves millions of rats while demanding further advances in biomarker assays from small volumes of biological fluids which is being made feasible with other Purdue technology and millions will be getting better healthcare as a result. . .

Faraday and JJ Thomson and then all of this happened. Once you have an electron in mind, the rest follows. . .

I call it Instrumentation Darwinism and, wow, does it work great at Purdue. And the next steps will be even better!!!!”