QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced at the 2026 BIO-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston that the QIAGEN Digital Insights bioinformatics business and its curated knowledge bases and bioinformatics expertise will be integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing and the NVIDIA BioNeMo platform to help researchers use AI more effectively in drug discovery.

AstraZeneca and Roche Diagnostics Asia Pacific today announced a three-year Memorandum of Understanding to help advance digital pathology capabilities and elevate cancer care across nine Asia markets, a first in the region. This landmark collaboration aims to accelerate the adoption of AI-powered digital and computational pathology through educational and training initiatives and improve biomarker testing in breast and lung cancer.

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Roche (SIX: RO, ROP; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire PathAI, a US-based company in digital pathology and AI-powered technology for pathology laboratories and the biopharma industry. This acquisition builds on the successful partnership between Roche and PathAI, established in 2021 and scaled up in 2024 to include the development of AI-enabled companion diagnostic algorithms. Subject to the closing of the transaction, which is expected in the second half of the year, the acquired entity will become part of the Diagnostics division.

Lucent Diagnostics, a brand of Quanterix Corporation (NASDAQ: QTRX), today announced a collaboration with Tempus AI Inc. (NASDAQ: TEM), a technology company leading the adoption of AI to advance precision medicine, to broaden access to a novel blood-based biomarker panel designed to improve detection accuracy for Alzheimer’s disease. Through the agreement, Tempus AI will build a Tempus Next care gap program for Alzheimer’s disease blood-based biomarker testing, with the LucentAD® Complete multi-biomarker blood test becoming available for neurologists to order on the Tempus clinical ordering platform.

Artera, a developer of multimodal AI-based prognostic and predictive cancer tests, announced today that it was granted CE marking under the European Union In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (EU IVDR) for both its ArteraAI Prostate Biopsy Assay and ArteraAI Breast Cancer Assay, marking a major step in the company’s global expansion.

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, and Google Cloud today announced a landmark partnership to enhance Merck’s digital backbone as an AI-enabled enterprise. This multi-year investment, valued at up to $1 billion, will deploy an agentic platform across Merck’s research & development (R&D), manufacturing, commercial, and corporate functions – and includes Google Cloud engineers working alongside Merck teams to deploy Google Cloud’s most sophisticated AI, including Gemini Enterprise.

Boehringer Ingelheim has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) centre in London, representing the company’s latest move to drive improved patient outcomes through the technologies’ application.

Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, today announced a new AI-powered real-world data platform, designed to help researchers and biopharmaceutical companies analyze Alzheimer's disease-related data faster. Developed with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Datavant, the platform provides access to large, diverse datasets and advanced analytics—using deidentified, privacy-protected healthcare data—designed to accelerate scientific discovery, shorten drug development timelines and improve identification of patients for clinical trial recruitment. The platform enables researchers, biopharma companies, payors and contract research organizations to generate insights in minutes that previously required months of intensive data mining.

PathAI, a leading provider of AI-powered pathology solutions, and MedStar Health, a leading health system headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, today announced a multi-year strategic collaboration to deploy PathAI’s AISight® Dx1 Digital Pathology Platform and various AI algorithm products across the multi-site network.