Significant Rise in Global Fungal Infections Affecting Civilian and Military Health

Significant Rise in Global Fungal Infections Affecting Civilian and Military Health

Awarded Matching SBIR Grant from Innovate Alabama to Enable Remote Infection Detection for Animal and Agricultural Applications

“Paula Millirons is the chief scientist at GeneCapture Inc. in Huntsville and co-inventor of the CAPTURE rapid protocol.”

Prestigious Award Recognizes GeneCapture’s Advances in Breakthrough Rapid Pathogen Detection Platform

GeneCapture, a resident associate company on the campus of HudsonAlpha, has won contracts from two Department of Defense agencies to prepare its portable rapid pathogen detection technology for independent and in-field testing. These new awards bring GeneCapture’s total awards from the DOD up to $5.5 Million.

GeneCapture, Inc. has some great news to share! We are excited to provide wound pathogen detection and antibiotic susceptibility testing for the Defense Health Agency alongside our subcontractor, Canvas, Inc. See the Press Release for more details.

Soon it could only take an hour to find out what pathogen is making you ill, following the successful demonstration of the world's first multi-pathogen identification using non-amplified RNA detection by GeneCapture, a company cofounded by researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System.

GeneCapture has been selected a finalist in the xTechSearch competition which resulted in a cash prize of $120,000, a spot in the xTechSearch Accelerator and an opportunity to demonstrate its products at the AUSA convention in Washington DC in October 2020. GeneCapture and 9 other companies are now active in the XtechSearch 6 month accelerator program.