Great Basin raises $3.6 million

LONGMONT – Great Basin Scientific Inc., a privately held life sciences company headquartered in Salt Lake City with operations in Longmont, has closed $3.6 million in bridge funding to support the company through 2009 and the launch of its first product.

Great Basin is working on a diagnostic test for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, bacteria that is responsible for difficult-to-treat infections in humans and often is resistant to many drugs used to treat infections.

“With this round of financing we have secured all the funding needed for our entrance into the market as the second generation of diagnostic testing, a disruptive technology platform…