While the in vitro diagnostics landscape has seen players come and go, Roche Diagnostics has remained at the top. But the Swiss giant, like all its other smaller rivals, is facing a new reality, with increasing pressures to prove medical value, and a more stringent regulatory environment. Medtech Insight spoke to Roche Diagnostics' Jean-Claude Gottraux, head of centralized and point of care solutions, and Jean-Jacques Palombo, lifecycle leader for the company's cardiac, women's health and personalized health care solutions immunoassay portfolio, to gain their perspectives on how the sector has evolved and will continue to evolve. They also spoke about the company's strategy to address these changes and challenges.
Over the last few years, several players competing in the in vitro diagnostics landscape have been swallowed up, bulked up, whittled down or have left the scene altogether. Names like Gen-Probe and Phadia, which had featured among the top 20 IVD companies less than a decade ago have now disappeared, after entering the folds of Thermo Fisher. Beckman Coulter and Cepheid are other top names that have been acquired and helped push Danaher up the ranks. Johnson & Johnson, whose Ortho Clinical Diagnostics business was positioned within the top 10 only five years ago, is now out of the game.
Amidst this shifting scene, Roche Diagnostics has held on stalwartly as the world's number one IVD player. The Swiss group...
