Deals Shaping The Medical Industry, October 2017

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Dealmaking column is a survey of recent health care transactions listed by relevant industry segment – In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals – and then categorized by type – Acquisition, Alliance, or Financing. This month’s column covers deals announced in September 2017.

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Angle PLC and Qiagen NV will co-promote each other’s liquid biopsy solutions for cancer detection. (Sep.)

To the deal Angle contributes its Parsortix system, which captures and harvests circulating tumor cells (CTCs), including mesenchymal cells, from a patient’s whole blood sample to detect a variety of solid tumors including breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal

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