How can stakeholders capitalize on this moment of acute public awareness of diagnostics to improve adoption of tests and screening in the long term? At a recent roundtable event, the CEOs of Roche Diagnostics, GE Healthcare, Labcorp and Synlab, among others, gave their thoughts on how the system must change.

The six months of additional exclusivity from US FDA’s CGT program appears to have kept some generic sponsors from the market, and didn’t even prompt others to enter quickly, but use of the competitive generic exclusivity program continues to grow.

With COVID-19 a residual but still very real issue globally, Novo Holdings asked the big diagnostics question at a recent high-level roundtable: How can stakeholders capitalize on this moment of acute public awareness of diagnostics to improve adoption of tests and screening in the long term? The CEOs of Roche Diagnostics, GE Healthcare, Labcorp and Synlab, among others, gave their thoughts on how the system must change.

The companies will argue the deal is “pro-competitive and life-saving” at a US Federal Trade Commission administrative trial on 24 August, but the FTC maintains the deal will hinder innovation in the multi-cancer diagnostics market. The merger is also facing regulatory scrutiny in Europe.