Columbia Association Aquatics Office, 9450 Gerwig Ln, Columbia, MD 21046, US

KD Medical, a wholly owned subsidiary of Calaba Tech, is a manufacturer of bacterial- and yeast-growth media, microbiological biological buffers, and other research reagents used in drug discovery, microbiology labs and biopharmaceutical production. The company is a primary vendor to the National Institutes of Health and markets its products to virtually every major pharmaceutical company in the United States. KD products include agarose gel electrophore sets, buffers and reagents, contamination-control products, elctroporation cuvettes, insect and fruit fly media, liquid bacterial culture media and additives, liquid tissue and cell culture media, liquid and plated yeast culture media and a full line of silanated glass slides. KD Medical is headquartered in Columbia, Md.