Research in the News
Local and online coverage of research published and presented by the Henry Group.
July 2020
The Henry Lab has had a few teams working on COVID-related research for the past few months. One of the devices has been successful and was licensed to Quara Devices, a startup company specializing in diagnostic biosensors.
See below for links to a few news articles and interviews:
Research team inks licensing deal for COVID-19 viral detection test
KOA News Radio – Interview with Dr. Brian Geiss
Denver CBS Local – featuring Drs. Chuck Henry, Brian Geiss, and David Dandy
April 28, 2017
Antimicrobial resistant bacteria detection research from the Henry Group was featured and honored at CSU Ventures’ Demo Day 2017.
March 8, 2017
Borrowing concepts from medical diagnostic devices, chemists have created a simple, cheap set of handheld tests that can detect the presence of many water or food-borne pathogens. If applied in the field, such tests could greatly reduce the number of expensive follow-up tests needed to keep the food supply safe from fecal contamination.
May 16, 2016
For the next week, about 25 students at the Rivendell School in Fort Collins are wearing some unusual accessories – little black devices that look a bit like old digital cameras. The accessories are wearable air pollution monitors created by Colorado State University scientists. The fourth- and fifth-graders are helping test the monitors, which could eventually aid asthma sufferers in combating the effects of poor air quality.
