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In Vitro Diagnostics Deals: Therapeutic Area Trends


Description: IVD (in vitro diagnostics) tests are essential to the practice of health care worldwide: an estimated 60-70% of medical decisions involve a diagnostic test. This report focuses on IVD industry deals of the last few years and what they reveal about the current strategies of some of the industry’s larger and smaller companies.

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Currently, IVD company revenues pale in comparison to those of the larger biopharmaceutical companies, but there are signs of steady growth in this highly segmented market.

What is the value of today’s global IVD market?
How fast is it growing?
Which segments are currently most profitable?
Which are showing strong growth?
Which IVD suppliers accounted for nearly 80% of worldwide sales in 2005?

Several large IVD M&As have occurred in recent years, but licensing deals have been the most common type.

How do licensing deals benefit IVD suppliers?
What do big pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies gain?
Which companies have been most active in M&A and licensing deals?
What does this activity indicate about the future of the IVD industry?

The overall oncology therapeutic area has accounted for the majority of IVD deals to date.

Which oncology segments are most active?
What other therapeutic areas are generating notable deals?
What types of diagnostic assays and tests are most in demand?
Which are being offered as “companion diagnostics” to therapeutic agents?
What new, DNA-based tests are in development?

Scope

The IVD marketplace: Current size, growth, segmentation, disease areas, major and
smaller IVD suppliers, 2005 sales.

IVD mergers and acquisitions: 2005-2006, companies, segments, values, significance.

IVD deals by disease areas: Oncology, cardiovascular, infectious diseases, other therapeutic areas.

IVD deal strategies: Different strategies drive deals in different tiers of the IVD industry.

Future IVD deals: Potential mergers and acquisitions as diagnostics change and the
IVD market continues to grow.


Contents: Executive Summary

Strategic Considerations

Stakeholder Implications

Introduction

Background—The IVD Marketplace

Perceived Value: Smaller Revenues Command Little Respect

The IVD Market—Pieces of the Pie

The Major Players—More Offerings Increase Market Share

A Bigger Pie—Boundaries Between Markets and Players Are Blurring

IVD Mergers and Acquisitions—Major Deals and a New Entrant

Sidebar: Drivers of a Diagnostics/Discovery Market

Oncology Deals

Cardiovascular Deals

Infectious Disease Deals

Deals in Other Therapeutic Areas

What Do Deals Tell Us About Company Strategies?

What Does the Future Hold for IVD Deals?

Tables

1. In Vitro Diagnostics Market Segments
2. The Major Suppliers of In Vitro Diagnostics
3. Select In Vitro Diagnostics Mergers and Acquisitions, 2005-2006
4. In Vitro Diagnostics Oncology Deals, 2005-2006
5. In Vitro Diagnostics Cardiovascular Deals, 2004-2006
6. In Vitro Diagnostics Infectious Disease Deals, 2004-2006
7. Select In Vitro Diagnostics Deals in Other Therapeutic Areas, 2003-2006


Companies Mentioned Abbott Affymetrix Agendia American Diagnostica Applied Imaging Arcturus AstraZeneca Athena Diagnostics Bayer Diagnostics Becton Dickinson Beckman Coulter BioMerieux Biosite CanAg Diagnostics Ciphergen Clarient Clinical Data Competitive Technologies Cytyc Dade Behring Diagnostic Products Corporation Diagnostic Systems Laboratories Epigenomics Exact Science Fisher Scientifi c Fujirebio Diagnostics GE Healthcare GeneOhm Sciences Gen-Probe Genzyme Health Discovery Corporation Inverness Medical Innovations Johnson & Johnson LabCorp LifeScan Lumigen Merck Monogram Biosciences Oncogene Sciences Oncomethylome Sciences Orion Genomics Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Pathwork Informatics Power3 Medical Primagen Quest Diagnostics Ranbaxy Laboratories Response Biomedical Roche Rubicon Genomics Siemens Thermo Electron TriPath Veridex


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