Company Story
Inspirotec LLC was founded in 2011 by Prasanthi Gandhi and Julian Gordon, two independent entrepreneurs driven by their interest to make change through simple yet meaningful technologies. The two first met at a local coffee shop to discuss potential technologies that could give allergy and asthma sufferers more control over their health. They tinkered with various product concepts in their home and then fell upon a breakthrough technology with applications in allergens and a variety of other fields including infectious diseases and homeland security.
Location
The company is based in Chicago, IL and active research is taking place at The University of Illinois Chicago Incubator Laboratory Facility.
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Intellectual Property
All Inspirotec products are protected under:
- Patent US 8,038,944
- Application No. 13/559,911
- Other Patents Pending in US and Worldwide
Collaborations
- Lance Peterson, MD – Northshore University Health System
- Dave Alburty – Founder and CEO of Alburty Labs
- Scott Franzblau PhD – Director of UIC Institute for Tuberculosis Research
- Wanda Phipatanakul MD MS – Harvard University, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Tiffany Sutton – US Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Command
Founders
Prasanthi Gandhi, MBA, MPH – Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Prasanthi is an Entrepreneur. She founded and managed an Indian NGO, headed marketing at a food startup, and launched health programs/products at UNICEF, Coca Cola, and Sara Lee. Read more…
Julian Gordon, PhD – Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Julian is a well-known Inventor. He developed the Western Blot at FMI/Ciba Geigy and lateral flow immunoassay, which led to the first home pregnancy test, at Abbott. Read more…
Funding
Inspirotec received seed funding from Paypal Co-Founder and Facebook early investor Peter Thiel’s Breakout Labs Program of the Thiel Foundation. Breakout Labs selected the company for their innovative work in science and technology.
The company is actively pursuing funding opportunities for their invention. Please contact us if you are interested in learning more.
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Presentations
Inspirotec presents a poster at the AAAAI Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, February 22-26, 2013. The abstract is published the February issue of the Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology.
Inspirotec presents a poster at the National Bio-Threat Conference in Denver, Colorado, March 27-29, 2012.
Inspirotec presents a poster at the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting in Washington DC, February 26-29, 2012
Inspirotec presents a poster at the AAAAI Annual Meeting in Orlando Florida, March 2-6, 2012.