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Excellence Categories – These categories look at achievements in our  core areas of excellence and include everything from Covid-19 Response to Social Impact.

Sector Excellence – These categories look at achievements within each individual market sub-sector and can include everything from notable business expansion through innovation to diversity and environmental initiatives.

Firms of the Year – These categories look at achievements by specific types of companies and includes everything from new market entrants to finance and legal firms.

Deals of the Year – The most notable finance and M&A deals from the research period.

 

*Please note that we also have awards for individuals, the winners of which will be announced in our Awards Report alongside the other category winners

Excellence Categories

BUSINESS EXPANSION

  • Biocept, Quest Diagnostics
  • Google, Ascension
  • IceCure, Terumo
  • Leica Microsystems
  • Olympus
  • Osso VR
  • Switchback Medical

COVID-19 RESPONSE

  • Abbott
  • Avacta
  • BD
  • Eurofins
  • Iceni
  • Insilico
  • Kantaro
  • Luminex
  • Ortho Clinical
  • PerkinElmer
  • PRA, PWNHealth, Fulgent Genetics
  • Qiagen
  • Quidel
  • Roche
  • Thermo Fisher

INNOVATION

  • 30M Genomics
  • Allabout
  • CMR Surgical
  • King’s College London (KCL)
  • Massachusetts General Hospital Consortia
  • Medtronic
  • RMIT
  • Tulane University
  • Turn Therapeutics
  • UW Madison

PRODUCT LAUNCH

  • Abbott
  • Abingdon Health, BioSure
  • Blink Science
  • Boston Scientific
  • CHF Solutions
  • Endospan
  • Explorer Surgical
  • HeartFlow
  • Kardium
  • Medtronic
  • Mesa Biotech
  • Orthofix Medical
  • PARI Pharma
  • Philips
  • Roche
  • Sensyne Health
  • Siemens
  • Smith+Nephew
  • Thermo Fisher
  • Valencell

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

  • Abbott
  • Inspira Technologies Oxy Bhn
  • Ortho Clinical
  • Philips
  • Qiagen
  • Quidel
  • Renovia

SOCIAL IMPACT

  • FemTech Lab
  • Galt Pharmaceuticals
  • Virti

Sector Excellence

DEVICE DEVELOPMENT

  • Abbott
  • Activ Surgical
  • BD
  • BioIntelliSense
  • Bio-Rad Laboratories
  • Boston Scientific
  • Getinge
  • Medtronic
  • PerkinElmer
  • Philips
  • Progentec, GSK
  • Quidel
  • Siemens
  • Thermo Fisher

DIAGNOSTICS

  • Geneoscopy
  • HeartFlow
  • Illumina
  • Infermedica
  • MIT
  • Quest Diagnostics
  • Roche
  • Thermo Fisher

IMAGING

  • Aidoc
  • Canon Medical
  • Medtronic
  • MIT
  • Nanox
  • Philips
  • RapidAI
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Warsaw University of Technology (WUT)

MANUFACTURING

  • Corza Health
  • Dexcom
  • Glidewell
  • Raumedic

MATERIALS

  • BD
  • LifeNet Health
  • Lumendi
  • Medtronic
  • RMIT
  • Turn Therapeutics

MONITORING

  • Biogen, Apple
  • Medtronic
  • QIAGEN

TREATMENTS

  • Boston Scientific
  • EmitBio
  • Philips, NICO.LAB

Firm of the Year

DISRUPTOR

  • Capsule Technologies
  • Click Therapeutics
  • Decipher Biosciences
  • GenMark Diagnostics
  • Grail Inc
  • Immunai
  • Livongo Health
  • Mesa Biotech
  • Preventice Solutions
  • Soliton
  • Teladoc Health

FINANCE

  • Bank of America
  • Barclays
  • Centerview Partners
  • Citigroup
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Evercore
  • J.P. Morgan Securities
  • Morgan Stanley
  • The Goldman Sachs Group

LEGAL

  • Cooley
  • DLA Piper
  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
  • Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
  • Goodwin Procter
  • Jones Day
  • Kirkland & Ellis
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
  • Ropes & Gray
  • Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
  • Sullivan & Cromwell
  • Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

NEWCOMER

  • Blink Science
  • Immunai
  • Inspira Technologies Oxy Bhn
  • Nasus Pharma
  • Novai
  • Odin Medical
  • Renata Medical
  • Sensyne Health
  • Vysioneer

PRIVATE EQUITY/VC

  • Bain Capital
  • BC Partners
  • CVC Capital Partners
  • EQT Partners
  • GIC
  • Hellman & Friedman
  • Pamplona Capital Management
  • Permira
  • The Blackstone Group
  • The Carlyle Group
  • Triton Investment Management

SME

  • Bio-Rad Laboratories
  • Capsule Technologies
  • Mesa Biotech
  • Omniome Inc

Deal of the Year

FINANCE

  • Intuitive Surgical
  • Medline Industries
  • Siemens Healthineers
  • BeiGene
  • Novartis
  • Maravai LifeSciences
  • Johnson & Johnson

M&A (impact)

  • Boston Scientific acquires Lumenis
  • Hellman & Friedman acquires Cordis
  • DiaSorin acquires Luminex
  • Honeywell acquires Sparta Systems
  • Illumina acquires GRAIL
  • Magstim acquires EGI product portfolio
  • Microsoft acquires Nuance Communications
  • Novo Nordisk acquires Emisphere Technologies
  • Pear Therapeutics and Thimble Point Acquisition merger
  • Roche and GenMark Diagnostics merger
  • Siemens Healthineers acquires Varian Medical Systems
  • Teladoc Health and Livongo merger
  • Vitrolife acquires Igenomix

M&A (innovation)

  • Abénex acquires Inlog Holdings France
  • Abiomed acquires preCARDIA
  • Aspen Surgical acquires Protek Medical Products
  • Change Healthcare acquires Nucleus.io
  • DJO acquires MedShape
  • GE Healthcare acquires Zionexa
  • Hologic acquires SOMATEX
  • Infosys acquires Kaleidoscope Innovation
  • Intersect ENT acquires Fiagon
  • Magstim acquires EGI product portfolio
  • Microsoft acquires Nuance Communications
  • NuVasive acquires Simplify Medical
  • Olympus acquires Veran Medical Technologies
  • Smith & Nephew acquires Integra’s extremities business
  • Terumo acquires Quirem Medical
  • Wenzel Spine acquires Statera Spine