Economy & Economic Development  April 23, 2019

KromaTiD receives $900,000 research grant

LONGMONT — KromaTiD Inc., a biotech company that recently moved its headquarters from Fort Collins to Longmont, has been awarded a Phase 2 Fast Track Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute.

The combined total of the first two phases of grant funding is $900,000, according to a company news release.

The funding will be used for the “further development of an automated, whole-genome directional genomic hybridization platform,” the release said.

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“We are very excited by our progress toward automating our platform and the prospect of providing our customers with a whole genome, high-resolution structural genomic solution,” KromaTiD president Christopher Tompkins said in a prepared statement. “The funding from the NHGRI has been critical in positioning our company to meet the growing structural genomic demands of our pharma, biopharma and therapeutic gene editing company customers.”

KromaTiD moved into a new Longmont headquarters at 1880 Industrial Drive last month.

“The new facility includes corporate offices as well as dedicated research, development and production laboratories, providing capacity to meet the growing demand for KromaTiD’s [dGH] structural genomics products and data services,” according to a company news release.

LONGMONT — KromaTiD Inc., a biotech company that recently moved its headquarters from Fort Collins to Longmont, has been awarded a Phase 2 Fast Track Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute.

The combined total of the first two phases of grant funding is $900,000, according to a company news release.

The funding will be used for the “further development of an automated, whole-genome directional genomic hybridization platform,” the release said.

“We are very excited by our progress toward automating our platform and the prospect of providing our customers with a whole genome, high-resolution structural genomic solution,” KromaTiD…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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