BioForce to collaborate with Iowa State University

Feb. 13, 2006 – BioForce Nanosciences, Inc. is collaborating with Iowa State University (ISU) to develop a sensitive nanotechnology based method for detecting food-borne pathogens. Funding for this project was awarded last week from the University as a part of the “Grow Iowa Values Fund” program which fosters the development of commercial applications from research.

The focus of the research is to provide new tools for the rapid and label-free detection of pathogen specific nucleic acid sequences with the potential to benefit the food industry, the medical and environmental diagnostics industries and the biotechnology and biodefense sectors.

The primary investigator on the project is Byron Brehm-Stecher, a faculty member in the department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at ISU. Eric Henderson, Founder and CEO of BioForce Nanosciences, is co-principal investigator, and Saju Nettikadan, Director of the Research and Application Development group at BioForce, will be a key researcher on this project.

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