After 25 years in Baton Rouge, Professor of Chemistry Kermit Murray has retired from LSU to work full time at his startup company Laser Bioanalytics LLC. The company is currently located in LSU Innovation Park, but will be moving to the Denver metro area in the summer of 2026.
Laser Bioanalytics is a life sciences instrumentation company dedicated to advancing the frontiers of spatial biology and structural proteomics. Originating from 25 years of mass spectrometry research at Louisiana State University, the company engineers next-generation platforms that integrate high-precision deep-ultraviolet and infrared lasers with targeted in situ photochemistry. The cutting-edge workflows empower researchers to bypass traditional analytical limits thereby enabling the spatial mapping of lipid isomers, the artifact-free extraction of native-state biomolecules, and the high-resolution structural profiling of folded proteins directly within the tissue microenvironment.