In May 2020, $25M for innovative solutions in response to COVID-19 was announced by the government.

$110K was awarded to Chemmat’s Associate Professor Ashton Partridge’s company Digital Sensing Ltd. The name of their project for testing for COVID-19,  is “Mass-production of point-of-care diagnostics for COVID19 and blood based biomarkers – Phase 1: Testing the biology.”

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