Collaboration Edition: Including deals involving Evotec/Variant, Sanofi/IGM/Nurix, ABVC/OncoX and Harmony/Bioprojet, along with tech transfer agreements and deals in brief.

Maria Shepherd, co-founder of MedExec Women, a nonprofit that seeks to empower executive leaders in medtech, is preparing to host the group’s fifth annual conference in Boston, which is expected to draw 200 attendees. Shepherd spent more than two decades in the medical device industry before starting consulting firm Medi-Vantage. She talks to Medtech Insight about her own career path, how the industry is changing, and the importance of “grooming” the next generation of young medtech leaders.

Medtech Insight spoke to Dexcom CEO Kevin Sayer, ahead of this year’s Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes conference, to get an update on the company’s recent news, future strategy and where he feels his company’s market is headed.

In this month’s Digital Health Roundup, Medtech Insight’s Marion Webb highlights interviews with industry leaders in medtech and healthtech and demos of some of the most innovative tech seen at CES 2024 in Las Vegas. Hannah Daniel dives into the latest developments in the intellectual property dispute between Apple and Masimo over blood oxygen sensors in the newer Apple Watch models.