John Redmond: Entrepreneurial Fortitude

By Mike Pearson FightingIllini.com Thursday, April 14, 2022 has a big red star beside it in John Redmond’s professional journal. That was the day that the former Fighting Illini gymnast’s company, InspectIR Systems, was granted authorized emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first-ever breathalyzer test to quickly detect the presence of COVID-19. Remember how we all lined up to get a nasal swab sample to see if we had contracted the dreaded disease? Well, Redmond’s InspectIR COVID-19 Breathalyzer made that method so “old school.” His apparatus analyzes the gases in the breath and picks…