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In a press release, the University of Wyoming has announced that their spinout company, CellDrop Biosciences Inc., 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. The competitive grant comes from the COVID Innovations Fund of UW’s Wyoming Health and Bioscience Innovation Hub, which is administering federal CARES Act funding from the state to support entrepreneurs, researchers, faculty members and business owners who propose innovative solutions addressing unsolved problems related to the COVID-19 pandemic. ....
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. ....