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About Ed Francis
DistilNFO's Executive Editor & Senior Industry Strategist.
Ed is the National Life Sciences Practice lead for West Monroe Partners & has more than 20 years of management consulting experience guiding some of the industry’s most prominent organizations.
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A week after appointing a CEO for its healthcare joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan, Amazon today announced an acquisition that underscores how it also hopes to have a more direct — and more commercial — role in the worl...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and Roper Technologies, Inc., a leading diversified technology company, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Thermo Fisher will ac...
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It’s official: Sanofi is finally ready to unload its European generics business. More than two months after disclosing that they were in exclusive talks, the French drugmaker and buyer Advent International have ironed out the details on a...
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Repligen said today it plans to merge with privately-held Spectrum Laboratories, in an approximately $359 million deal that Repligen said will accelerate the growth of its filtration business and enhance its position as a leading developer ...
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Stryker Corp. agreed to acquire Swiss medical device company SafeAir AG, The Daily Times reports. SafeAir designs, develops and manufactures surgical smoke evacuation solutions to reduce staff and patient exposure to hazards associated with...
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Repligen Corporation, a life sciences company focused on bioprocessing technology leadership, today announced an agreement with Navigo Proteins GmbH for the advancement of exclusive novel affinity ligands used in monoclonal antibody and non...
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Dive Brief: Swiss pharma Roche will pay $2.4 billion to acquire the rest of Foundation Medicine that it doesn’t already own, advancing its efforts to develop treatments targeted to the molecular make-up of a patient’s cancer. Ro...
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The U.S. Department of Justice approved the acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer. They are two of the largest agricultural companies in the world. As of June 7 Bayer is the sole owner. According to Monsanto, its stock will no longer be traded o...
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General Electric on Tuesday announced that it will spin off its healthcare business unit and let go of its stake in Baker Hughes, its publicly traded oil-services company. GE will reportedly be focusing on power plants, jet engines, and ren...
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When Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan was asked during the company’s first-quarter earnings conference call in April what he planned to do with the long-struggling eye unit Alcon, he said he wanted to make the decision next year “from a posi...
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