Boulder’s MBio lands additional $1.5M in defense funding for rapid infection testing

BOULDER — Mbio Diagnostics Inc. received an additional $1.55 million from the U.S. Department of Defense this week to get a rapid infection testing device closer toward federal approval.

The Boulder-based company is developing a system to find specific biomarkers in a blood sample that would indicate the presence of a range of contagious diseases early in their incubation cycles.
In an emailed statement, chief operating officer Michael Lochhead said the system could be used for testing for COVID-19, but it would test for the presence of a C-reactive protein caused by…