Speaking Out on the Promise of Diagnostics

Emery Stephans, the head of Enterprise Analysis, a consultancy focused on in vitro diagnostics and medical imaging, observes that the in vitro diagnostics industry is slow growing and has only limited resources to spend on development of next-generation products. Nevertheless, he's optimistic about the future, and excited by the promise of pharmacogenomics, analyte specific reagents,and consumerism, which he believes will act as driving forces in diagnostics.

Even as he observes that the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry is slow-growing at the moment and has only limited resources to spend on development of next-generation products, Emery Stephans lauds the industry's future. Despite others' skepticism, he's excited by the promise of pharmacogenomics (although the timing of a take-off is unknown), analyte specific reagents (ASRs, which he calls a "brilliant" regulatory concept), and consumerism as driving forces in diagnostics. "There is reason to be highly optimistic about the future, for both in vitro and more rapidly evolving in vivo imaging," he insists.

A small, energetic man who heads Enterprise Analysis Corp. in Stamford, CT, Stephans has been consulting to IVD and medical...

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