BioFire Defense

BioFire Defense, LLC, formerly Idaho Technology, Inc., is a subsidiary of bioMérieux Inc. (Durham, NC) and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. BioFire Defense is focused on technological innovation and product development of pathogen identification systems for BioThreat, public health, and industrial applications in the life sciences industry. It has developed and provided products for defense, diagnostic, food testing, and life sciences industries since 1990. BioFire Diagnostics, LLC, its sister subsidiary, continues delivering and expanding in vitro diagnostic applications of its novel FilmArray System to hospital-based clinical laboratories across the world, offering syndromic panels which cover 5 disease areas (pneumonia, respiratory, gastro-intestinal, blood stream infections and meningitis-encephalitis).