Integrated DNA Technologies

Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. (IDT), headquartered in Coralville, Iowa, is the largest supplier of custom nucleic acids in the U.S., serving the areas of academic research, biotechnology, clinical diagnostics, and pharmaceutical development. IDT's primary business is the manufacturing of custom DNA and RNA oligonucleotides (oligos) for research applications.Joseph Walder, M.D., Ph.D. (Northwestern University), founded Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. in 1987 through a partnership with Baxter Healthcare Corporation at the University of Iowa Technology Innovation Center business incubator. In its first 10 years, the company grew from a start-up with 10 synthesizing machines to one with more than 500, shipping an average 36,000 custom oligos per day to its over 77,000 customers worldwide, enabling them to test for genetic diseases, discover new drugs, and develop new treatment models tailored to the specific needs of individual patients