February 3, 2021
Gareth Flowers, a chemical engineering major from Powell, works on a point-of-care COVID-19 test device in the Oakey biomedical engineering laboratory at UW. A team involving the Oakey lab and UW spinout CellDrop Biosciences Inc. is developing a sensitive and extremely fast antigen test for COVID-19 that will produce results in under three minutes. (Cassidy Enloe Photo)
CellDrop Biosciences Inc., a University of Wyoming spinout company, is part of a $354,000 grant to develop sensitive and extremely fast antigen tests for COVID-19 that will produce results in under three minutes.
The collaborative effort is spearheaded by the Oakey biomedical engineering laboratory at UW and involves CellDrop Biosciences; Metrohm Raman, a Laramie-based manufacturer of analytical systems; and the lab of Hadley Sikes, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology associate professor of chemical engineering.