Logo

Celmatix Wins $4.5M From New York State to Expand NYC Headquarters

Dec 18, 2017 | staff reporter

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Women's health company Celmatix has received $4.5 million from the Empire State Development's New York City Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) to expand its headquarters in Manhattan, the company said today.

The award is one of 121 for projects in New York City this year, totaling $64.8 million. Overall, the REDC program awarded more than $755 million in funding to different regions of New York state in 2017.

Celmatix, founded in 2009, currently offers two products: Polaris, a web-based data analytics platform for patient management and counseling, and Fertilome, a genetic test to assess the risk for certain reproductive conditions.

Last month, the company received approval from the New York State Department of Health for the Fertilome test.

Filed under

Molecular Diagnostics
Reproductive Health
infertility
genetic risk variants
Celmatix
Breaking News
The Scan

Harvard Team Report One-Time Base Editing Treatment for Motor Neuron Disease in Mice

A base-editing approach restored SMN levels and improved motor function in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy, a new Science paper reports.

International Team Examines History of North American Horses

Genetic and other analyses presented in Science find that horses spread to the northern Rockies and Great Plains by the first half of the 17th century.

New Study Examines Genetic Dominance Within UK Biobank

Researchers analyze instances of genetic dominance within UK Biobank data, as they report in Science.

Cell Signaling Pathway Identified as Metastasis Suppressor

A new study in Nature homes in on the STING pathway as a suppressor of metastasis in a mouse model of lung cancer.