COVID-19  August 7, 2020

Boulder biotech companies MBio, Brava merge amid rapid growth

BOULDER — Two Boulder biotech companies have merged amid a COVID-19-related growth spurt that has seen employment at the two firms grow by 150% since the beginning of the year.

MBio Diagnostics Inc., which developed the LightDeck testing platform, and Brava Diagnostics Inc., which develops tests for that platform, merged at the end of July. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The LightDeck optical system employs disposable cartridges — containing blood, water, nasal samples, saliva or some other substance — and uses fluorescent readers and intuitive software to measure up to 50 analytes, or substances,…

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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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