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Bill Aims to Extend $1B Small Biotech Credit
A new bill would extend a program through 2017 that under Obama's health care bill awarded $1 billion in tax credits and grants to small biotech firms.
The company has received a $224,500 Therapeutic Discovery Project Tax Credit and a $365,579 SBIR Phase II matching grant from the Commonwealth of Kentucky to continue the development of a predictive test to guide treatment of antipsychotic drugs.
Companies developing array- or biochip-based molecular diagnostics received a shot in the arm earlier this month under the Internal Revenue Service's $1 billion Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project program.
The grants, awarded through the Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project Program created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, were disclosed last week by the IRS.
Biodesix Raises $7.1M in Series C Round of Financing
The money will go toward ongoing commercialization of VeriStrat, a serum proteomic-based test to help guide treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.