BOULDER — Three Boulder companies and another one that started in Boulder are finalists for the “Rising Star of the Year” award from the Colorado BioScience Association, an industry trade group.

The award will be given at the group’s annual dinner on Thursday, Dec. 6, at the Hyatt Convention Center, 650 15th Street, Denver.

The finalists are: biotechnology research company InDevR Inc. in Boulder, which makes diagnostic tests; medical device company Sophono Inc. in Boulder, which makes a hearing aid device; research company Mosaic Biosciences Inc. in Boulder and Aurora, which makes a gel bandage; and medical-device company Surefire Medical Inc. in Westminster, which makes a microcatheter used in procedures to treat liver and kidney cancer. Surefire started in Boulder in 2009.

The Colorado BioScience Association has about 350 members, many of them Boulder and Broomfield companies.