IRIS Kinetics measures biology directly, with light.
Hundreds of biomarkers. One sample. Minutes. From bench to bedside.
Well researched for 18 years.
In premier journals and institutions.
The same sensor, from the bench to the bedside
On the bench.
Label-free binding kinetics on the MX-200, designed to read up to 100 biomarkers in a run. Coming Q1 2027.
A 25 µL sample.
The volume the TX-100 cartridge is built around. The chip inside it is the same one running in labs today.
At the bedside.
Answers in about ten minutes on the TX-100, which is in development.
This is what our
sensor sees.
Each probe spot brightens as bound material accumulates on it. Traced over time, every spot gives its own binding curve.
Whatever you need to measure.
It finds things other instruments miss.
In one published run, IRIS produced a binding curve that a surface plasmon resonance instrument could not detect at all. Nothing was labeled, tagged or amplified to get there.
| What was measured | Papers | In practice |
|---|---|---|
| Proteins | 26list ↗ | Binding kinetics and concentration, in buffer and in serum. |
| Viruses and virus particles | 26list ↗ | Including a point-of-care monkeypox test, published in 2025 by Unlu group, in partnership with UCSD. |
| Nucleic acids | 12list ↗ | Targeted attomolar microRNA. |
| Bacteria | 4list ↗ | Capture and detection on a microarray of probes. |
| Extracellular vesicles | 3list ↗ | Counted and characterized one vesicle at a time, not as an ensemble. |
| Single nucleotide polymorphisms | 3list ↗ | Allele discrimination on the same chip format. |
Two ways in.
Research Use
MX-104 available. MX-200 coming Q1 2027
Multiplexed label-free kinetics, alongside the SPR and BLI systems you already own.
Clinical
The same sensor, aimed at the bedside.
A tabletop platform for critical care, backed by eighteen years of published work.
IRIS MX-series instruments are for research use only. The IRIS TX-100 is in development for clinical use.
Built in Boston.
M. Selim Ünlü, PhD
Founder and CTO
Invented IRIS at Boston University. Fellow of IEEE, AIMBE and Optica.
Farhad Khosravi, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Ten years scaling biosensor and diagnostic platforms out of the lab.
Charles DeLisi, PhD
Advisor
Former Engineering Dean at Boston University. Presidential Citizens Medal.