Autumn has brought a flurry of personnel changes with Kyowa FujiFilm getting a new president and AZ a new executive vice president for the international region. Fosun and the medtech firm, Median Technologies, have also seen personnel movement.

Autumn has brought a flurry of personnel changes with Kyowa FujiFilm getting a new president and AZ a new executive vice president for the international region. Fosun and the medtech firm, Median Technologies, have also seen personnel movement.

Among diagnostic specialties, anatomic pathology is the last holdout against the digital revolution. Pathologists still detect disease by looking at tissue samples on a glass slide through a microscope, just as they have done for a hundred years. But in the last couple of years, start-up companies have begun to break the bondage of pathologists to slides. Their solution: platforms for digitizing slides so they can be accessed through computer networks by clinicians anywhere in the world. Two start-ups, Aperio and BioImagene, have led the way and now all the big imaging manufacturers, the microscope companies and biomarker developers want in.

Advances in imaging technologies mean that tiny lung nodules can now be detected, creating a need for technologies for diagnosing and treating lung cancer at early stages. Median Technologies, in computer-assisted detection, PneumRx, with a better biopsy tool, and Perceptronix Medical and Menssana Research, with novel diagnostics, hope to help here.