HTG Molecular Announces Third Statement of Work for New Clinical Assay Development Program

TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. HTGM (HTG), a provider of instruments, reagents and services for molecular profiling applications, today announced it has entered into a third statement of work for a new clinical assay development program under its Master Assay Development, Commercialization and Manufacturing Agreement with QIAGEN Manchester Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of QIAGEN, N.V. QGEN. Work for the new development program will begin immediately.

"We are very excited to initiate a third assay development program for yet another pharmaceutical company under our QIAGEN master agreement, which we believe further demonstrates the strength of our combined value proposition in the development of companion diagnostics," said TJ Johnson, HTG's President and CEO. "This new program has a very aggressive development timeline, including the possibility of a first regulatory filing in 2018." 

About HTG
Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, the mission of HTG is to empower precision medicine at the local level. The company's HTG EdgeSeq technology, which automates highly multiplexed molecular profiling of small samples for next-generation sequencing, received its first US patent in 2014. Continuous improvements led to the 2017 launch of HTG's new direct-target sequencing chemistry for DNA analysis offered in the company's VERI/O services laboratory. Additional information is available at www.htgmolecular.com.

Safe Harbor Statement
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Contact:

LifeSci Advisors, LLC
Ashley Robinson
Phone: (617) 775-5956
Email: arr@lifesciadvisors.com

TJ Johnson
President / CEO
HTG Molecular Diagnostics
Phone: (520) 547-2827 x130
Email: tjjohnson@htgmolecular.com