Roche Pushes Personalization With $2.4Bn Foundation Buy-Out
Executive Summary
By picking up the rest of Foundation Medicine, which is now valued at $5.3bn, the Swiss giant is expanding its leadership in cancer diagnostics, genomics and molecular information for personal medicine.
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