Category Archives: Press
OptiEnz Sensors Announces New CEO
Steve Witt named CEO of OptiEnz Sensors to Accelerate Company To Commercialization Steve Witt has been named CEO of OptiEnz Sensors, LLC, a spinoff from Colorado State University and an Innosphere Client Company. OptiEnz Sensors is a local startup company developing biosensors for continuous monitoring of organic chemicals in food and beverage processing, industrial fermentations, [...]
KromaTiD and OptiEnz Sensors, New Rocky Mountain Innosphere Clients
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE After Starting as CSU Spin-off Companies FORT COLLINS, CO – KromaTiD and OptiEnz Sensors are now clients of the Rocky Mountain Innosphere, a non-profit technology incubator, and both had their starts at Colorado State University. “Innosphere is proud to support Colorado State University start-up companies and value our long-standing partnership with the [...]
Engineering TV Interview: OptiEnz Biosensors Detect Contaminants in Real-Time Using Bioengineering and Fiber Optics
Colorado State University Professor Ken Reardon, working in tandem with Cenergy, the university’s vehicle for commercializing innovative clean and renewable technologies, has created OptiEnz Sensors LLC to develop, manufacture and sell biosensors which rely on fluorescent light to identify contaminants in continuously, in real-time. Electronic Design’s Bill Wong met with postdoctoral researchers Ryan Holcomb [...]
Innovation News article: OptiEnz transforms chemical monitoring with fiber optic biosensors
FORT COLLINS — In recent years, the demand for organic chemical testing that is quick, efficient and low cost has become increasingly important for a variety of applications, ranging from monitoring water pollutants to food and beverage safety. To meet that need, Fort Collins-based OptiEnz Sensors has developed a very simple, effective solution – [...]
Colorado State University Startup OptiEnz Names President, Unveils Prototype
FORT COLLINS – Chris Thompson, a former director of Enterprise Systems at Advanced Energy Industries and Colorado State University alumnus, has been named president of OptiEnz Sensors LLC, a university startup that is developing biosensors for detecting food and water contaminants.
“Chris is a great addition to our team – his expertise will be valuable with getting this technology out of the laboratory and into commercial production,” said Ken Reardon, a Colorado State professor of chemical and biological engineering who co-founded OptiEnz.
CSU Incubates Future Corporations, Breakthroughs
Nelson Garcia (nelson NULL.garcia null@null 9news NULL.com), 9NEWS.com, May 7, 2010. KUSA-TV © 2010 Multimedia Holdings Corporation. For years, Dr. Ken Reardon had an idea. The chemical engineer invented a new way to detect contaminants in groundwater. Now, that idea is being developed into a real commercial enterprise. “You can start out with a great [...]
CSU technology tests water contamination on-scene
Bobby Magill (BobbyMagill null@null coloradoan NULL.com). Fort Collins Coloradoan, May 11, 2010. OptiEnz would allow first responders to test contaminants on-scene If those first on the scene at last summer’s two Poudre River asphalt tanker spills could have immediately tested contamination in the water to find out how badly the river was polluted, Fort Collins [...]
Cenergy, Colorado State University Professor Create Startup to Make Biosensors that Detect Contaminants in Water, Food
Emily Narvaes Wilmsen ( Emily NULL.Wilmsen null@null ColoState NULL.EDU), 970.491.2336. Colorado State University Department of Public Relations. May 10, 2010. Colorado State University’s Clean Energy commercialization arm, Cenergy, has co-founded a new company with a professor of chemical and biological engineering to manufacture biosensors that detect chemical contaminants in water and food. Professor Ken Reardon, [...]
