Skip to main content
Premium Trial:

Request an Annual Quote

Quanterix Prices $250M Public Stock Offering

NEW YORK – Quanterix said on Thursday that it has priced a public offering of 3,571,428 shares of its common stock at $70.00 per share. The Billerica, Massachusetts-based firm expects gross proceeds of around $250 million from the offering, which it announced on Wednesday.

The company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 535,714 shares of common stock at the public offering price less underwriting discounts, commissions, and offering expenses.

Goldman Sachs, SVB Leerink, and Cowen are the joint bookrunning managers for the offering, and Canaccord Genuity is the lead manager.

The offering is expected to close on Feb. 8.

Last month, Quanterix received Emergency Use Authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration for its Simoa SARS-CoV-2 N Protein Antigen Test.

The Scan

Genetic Ancestry of South America's Indigenous Mapuche Traced

Researchers in Current Biology analyzed genome-wide data from more than five dozen Mapuche individuals to better understand their genetic history.

Study Finds Variants Linked to Diverticular Disease, Presents Polygenic Score

A new study in Cell Genomics reports on more than 150 genetic variants associated with risk of diverticular disease.

Mild, Severe Psoriasis Marked by Different Molecular Features, Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Finds

A spatial transcriptomics paper in Science Immunology finds differences in cell and signaling pathway activity between mild and severe psoriasis.

ChatGPT Does As Well As Humans Answering Genetics Questions, Study Finds

Researchers in the European Journal of Human Genetics had ChatGPT answer genetics-related questions, finding it was about 68 percent accurate, but sometimes gave different answers to the same question.