About

Commercializing the UFC19

EviroTECH is a start-up company based in Lubbock, Texas. We were established to commercialize the Ultra-Fast COVID-19 Detection Sensor, a technology invented by Prof. Gerardine G. Botte from Texas Tech University.

We are dedicated to finding and creating new medical technologies that combat viruses, diseases, and infections. Our medical devices use electrochemical technology and biomedical engineering to provide innovative solutions for viruses like SARS-CoV-2.

The team

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Gerardine (Gerri) G. Botte

Gerardine G. Botte, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Technology Officer of EviroTECH. Gerri is also a Professor and Whitacre Department Chair in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech University. She is an entrepreneur and technology expert. Dr. Botte has over 21 years of experience in the development of electrochemical processes and has 59 granted patents. She is one of the inventors of the Covid 19 sensor. Dr. Botte has successfully led and executed research projects totaling more than $17 million from a wide variety of private, federal, and state sponsors, and non-profit organizations. She has been involved in the scale-up of several electrochemical technologies, their commercialization, and the spin-off of companies.

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Robert (Rocky) Mansfield

Robert (Rocky) Mansfield, Chief Operating Officer, EviroTECH. Rocky has over 30 years of experience in designed experiments and statistical analysis, production, product design, and process design, bringing mass-produced products into production and the marketplace. This includes over 20 years of  experience in electrochemistry, metal oxide chemistry, processing at Energizer Battery Co., where he was responsible for such projects as miniature zinc-air batteries and zero mercury miniature watch batteries and zero mercury miniature zinc-air batteries, including product design, process design, and production implementation and over nine years of experience in nano-crystalline sensors, their design and sol-gel application of the nano-crystalline oxides by spin coating, and spin coating process control. Rocky’s experience also includes broader management experience as COO, VP Product Development, and VP Manufacturing for Sensor Development Corporation, VP Product Development E3 Clean Technologies, as well as a small business owner. Rocky has participated in 7 SBIR/STTR grants worth over $2.6 million.

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