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BioFire Diagnostics Ink $25M

BioFire Diagnostics Inc. has raised $25 million in new funding from New York-based Athyrium Opportunities Fund. The money will be used to help commercialize the company’s “FilmArray” diagnostic ...
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BioFire Submits 510(k) Application to FDA for FilmArray® Blood Culture Identification Test

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioFire Diagnostics, Inc. today announced that it has submitted the FilmArray Blood Culture Identification (BCID) Panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
FierceBiotech

BioFire Diagnostics wins FDA clearance for innovative GI panel

BioFire Diagnostics won 510(k) clearance for its gastrointestinal panel for infectious diarrhea, following in the footsteps of the company's acquisition by French diagnostic giant bioMérieux.
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BioFire Diagnostics, Inc. Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for the FilmArray® System

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioFire Diagnostics, Inc., today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 8,394,608 covering the company’s FilmArray ...
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BioFire Diagnostics, Inc. Expands Financing Commitment from Athyrium Opportunities Fund to $45 Million

SALT LAKE CITY, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BioFire Diagnostics, Inc. today announced the expansion of its financing commitment with Athyrium Opportunities Fund to $45 million from $25 million. The ...
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BioFire Awarded Next Generation Diagnostics System Contract

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (March 26, 2013) — BioFire Diagnostics, Inc. today announced that it has signed a competitive prototyping contract with the Department of the Army for Increment 1 of the Next ...
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bioMérieux buys BioFire Diagnostics for $400m

France-based bioMérieux has acquired the privately held US company, BioFire Diagnostics Inc for $400 million, consolidating its position as a major player in infectious disease diagnostics. BioFire ...
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Dallas Hospital Had the Ebola Screening Machine That the Military Is Using in Africa

This story has been updated. The military is using an Ebola screening machine that could have diagnosed the Ebola cases in Texas far faster, but government guidelines prevent hospitals from using it ...
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bioMérieux submits for FDA Clearance of the BIOFIRE FILMARRAY Pneumonia Panel

bioMérieux (Paris:BIM), a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announces that BioFire Diagnostics, its molecular biology affiliate, has submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for ...
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US FDA grants BioFire Diagnostics to market CSF nucleic acid-based test to detect multiple pathogens

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed Salt Lake City, Utah-based BioFire Diagnostics to market the first cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) nucleic acid-based test for simultaneous detection of ...
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FDA signs off on BioFire Diagnostics' rapid meningitis test

BioMérieux's BioFire Diagnostics got an FDA OK for its rapid meningitis and encephalitis test, a feather in the company's cap as it diversifies its portfolio and ramps up business in an increasingly ...