SomaLogic, Children’s Hospital team up against childhood diseases

BOULDER —SomaLogic Inc. of Boulder and Aurora-based Children’s Hospital Colorado said on Wednesday they will collaborate to develop laboratory tests to improve the diagnosis and management of childhood diseases.

Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

The discovery and development work will be done using SomaLogic’s SOMAscan assay, which can measure more than a thousand proteins in a small amount of blood or other biological samples.

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Colorado and SomaLogic will analyze the proteins from blood samples obtained from children suffering from disease. They will select those proteins, or biomarkers, whose change in concentration is correlated with disease to…