“Our lab is also very active in development of nanomaterial based platforms for gene therapy as well as delivery of vaccines, adjuvants, and drugs, and we are equally excited about the potential of the Spero to improve our research in these fields by providing a means to identify (and in the future, potentially quantify) presence of drugs without either the label based imaging methods or destructive bulk analytical approaches currently required. Of particular relevance to Spero imaging are many of the newer polymer based and nanomaterial delivery formulations under development because the IR signatures of these materials are very different than those of tissue and should be easily detectable. ”

Dr. Rebekah Drezek
Bioscience Research Collaborative
Rice University

“[Spero] is a huge advance and in my opinion is what truly can take this technology to the next level. Due to the much brighter lasers, this system can allow for real-time imaging of human tissues and is the first fully integrated system that could be used by Pathologists. There is considerable interest in this system in my pathology department at UIC.”

“[Spero] is a huge advance and in my opinion is what truly can take this technology to the next level. Due to the much brighter lasers, this system can allow for real-time imaging of human tissues and is the first fully integrated system that could be used by Pathologists. There is considerable interest in this system in my pathology department at UIC.”

Dr. Michael Walsh
Pathology Department
University of Illinois at Chicago