SiPhox Receives Grant to Develop Photonic Biochips

SiPhox Inc. received a $681,631 grant from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative to support development of a facility to boost production capacity for its photonic biochips from 100 biochips per month to roughly 5000 biochips per month. The increase in production capacity will help meet demand from biotech verticals such as distributed diagnostics, drug discovery, and vaccine development. Siphox is a graduate of the Y Combinator accelerator and was founded by Diedrik Vermeulen, previously director of engineering at Analog Photonics and a research scientist at MIT.