Nanotechnology grads team up on COVID testing kit

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Two graduates of Waterloo Engineering are developing an at-home testing kit for COVID-19 after answering a design challenge by the federal government.

Kamyar Ghofrani and James MacLean, who graduated two years apart from the nanotechnology engineering program, teamed up with Monica Hoang, a doctoral pharmacy student at Waterloo, at startup company Serapsis Labs.

“We brainstormed, came up with a few different ideas - some better than others - and within a week we had a design," Ghofrani said.

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