As part of promotional activities leading up to CACLP 2026, a series of activities took place successfully in Xiamen last week. Among them, the Xiamen Forum on Empowering the In Vitro Diagnostics Industry and Exploring New Models of Collaboration was held on 21 November 2025.

Eli Lilly’s weight-loss drugs have made it the first pharma company to hit a $1tn market valuation, a sharp turnaround from this summer when its stock was hit by disappointing results for a new obesity pill.

Lunit, a leading provider of AI for cancer diagnostics and precision oncology, and Labcorp, a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, today announced a collaborative initiative to accelerate innovation in digital pathology (DP) and artificial intelligence (AI) for oncology research and clinical care.

SOPHiA GENETICS (NASDAQ: SOPH), a global leader in AI-driven precision medicine, and Element Biosciences, Inc., a biology company transforming the pace and accessibility of scientific discovery, today announced at the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) Annual Meeting a partnership that unites sequencing and AI analytics to streamline genomic workflows and accelerate the research supporting precision medicine.

Following its announcement to return to Xiamen in 2026, CACLP has received overwhelming enthusiasm from exhibitors worldwide. As of October 2025, more than 1,000 companies have confirmed their participation for next year’s event, reaffirming CACLP’s role as the world‘s largest IVD event and an important annual gathering of the global diagnostic community.

QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to fully acquire Parse Biosciences, a leading provider of scalable, instrument-free solutions for single-cell research.

China leads the world in AI research publications related to the global medical device field over the past five years, according to a latest industrial white paper.

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Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY), in collaboration with KlinRisk, Inc., has received the CE-mark for the first AI-based risk stratification tool to assess progressive decline in kidney function. This milestone allows Roche to introduce the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) algorithm panel on its navify® Algorithm Suite to support care across all stages of the CKD care pathway. The panel includes the new Kidney Klinrisk Algorithm - for early risk assessment of adults diagnosed with CKD as well as adults with diabetes or hypertension at elevated risk for kidney function decline - alongside the established CE-marked Kidney KFRE Algorithm (KFRE) for managing later disease stages of CKD.

Lunit (KRX:328130.KQ), a leading provider of AI for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A), a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets, today announced a nonexclusive collaboration to develop AI-based companion diagnostic solutions. The collaboration will leverage Lunit's AI technology and Agilent's expertise in tissue-based companion diagnostics to create advanced solutions that meet the demand of novel and complex biomarker assays in drug development.