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Labcorp Acquires Select Assets of BioReference Health’s Diagnostics Business
Labcorp and OPKO Health announced on March 28 that they have entered into an agreement for Labcorp to acquire select assets of BioReference Health, a wholly owned subsidiary of OPKO Health. Through this transaction, Labcorp will acquire BioReference Health’s laboratory testing businesses focused on clinical diagnostics and reproductive and women’s health across the United States outside of New York and New Jersey. Also included are BioReference’s patient service centers and certain customer contracts and operating assets. The assets being acquired currently generate approximately $100 million in annual revenue, according to the original deal press release from March 28,... Read More »
StatLab Medical Products Acquires Poly Scientific R&D
McKinney, Texas-based StatLab Medical Products announced that it has acquired Poly Scientific R&D. Poly Scientific is one of the leading manufacturers of chemicals, stains and reagents for histology, cytology and microbiology, as well as other items for in-vitro diagnostic testing. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Bay Shore, New York. StatLab Medical Products, an Audax Private Equity and Linden Capital Partners portfolio company, is a McKinney, Texas-based developer and manufacturer of histology, cytology and immunohistochemistry diagnostic products. The company partners with anatomic pathology laboratories to provide easy access to more than 3,500... Read More »
Sonic Healthcare Acquires Dr. Risch in Switzerland
Sonic Healthcare announced this week that it agreed to pay CHF 117 million (approximately $131.7 million USD) for the acquisition of Dr. Risch. Dr. Risch is a Switzerland-based second-generation family business. Since its founding in 1970, the laboratory has developed into a leading partner in the field of laboratory medicine diagnostics and today has 16 networked competence centers in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The company has about 650 employees. Founded in 1987, Sonic Healthcare is a global medical diagnostics company providing laboratory, pathology and radiology services. It has a presence in Australia, New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland,... Read More »
Ginkgo Bioworks Makes 3 Acquisitions
Last week, Ginkgo Bioworks, a Boston-based Biotechnology company, announced that it completed three transactions. The first transaction is the acquistion of Patch Biosciences. Patch Biosciences has developed an artificial intelligence platform for sequence design that could create more effective, specific and durable genetic medicines. The company was backed by venture and investment firms Andreessen Horowitz, Casdin Capital and S32. The second acquisition is of Reverie Labs. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Reverie Labs is a cancer therapeutics biotechnology company that built and used artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools to accelerate drug... Read More »
