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Siemens’ Companion Dx Deals Showcase Multiple Technologies, Improve Market Access

Siemens has joined the ranks of companies offering services to pharma to develop companion diagnostics, with the concurrent announcements in February of separate deals with Viiv Healthcare and gene therapy specialist Tocagen. In different ways, the transactions illustrate the increasing emphasis on application of multiple technologies toward the development of companion diagnostics, as pharma strives to determine how best to assure market access to its targeted drugs.

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., a unit of Siemens AG, has joined the ranks of companies offering services to pharma to develop companion diagnostics, with the concurrent announcements in February of separate deals with ViiV Healthcare [See Deal] and gene therapy specialist Tocagen Inc.[See Deal] In addition to signaling a strategic decision by Siemens, in different ways, the transactions illustrate the increasing emphasis on application of multiple technologies toward the development of companion diagnostics, as pharma strives to determine how best to assure market access to its targeted drugs.

The Viiv deal calls for Siemens to develop a genotypic assay to be used alongside Pfizer Inc.’s approved HIV...

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