Boston Business Journal - January 27, 2009

U.S. Genomics renews Woburn lease
Boston Business Journal

U.S. Genomics renewed its lease with landlord Cummings Properties LLC for nearly 40,000 square feet of office and lab space in Woburn, Mass.

The biotech company is headquartered at 12 Gill St., also known as the Gill Street Life Sciences Cluster, where more than two dozen life sciences firms are located. The office and lab lease was announced by Cummings Properties was signed several weeks ago.

U.S. Genomics was founded in 1997 and is developing single-molecule biology technologies for diagnostics and biodefense applications. In September, U.S. Genomics announced it received a $4.5 million equity investment from Becton, Dickinson and Co. To date, U.S. Genomics has raised $61 million from investors and has been awarded contracts totaling $39 million by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Advanced Research Project Agency.