PERSPECTIVE
Agilent completed its acquisition of Proscia on November 4, paying $240 million in cash at closing. Up to $30 million more is tied to future performance milestones. Agilent first announced the agreement on October 13. The companies had already signed a distribution agreement in 2022.
Proscia’s Concentriq software connects slide scanners, laboratory information systems and image-analysis tools. Owning that software gives Agilent a way to connect its pathology instruments and reagents more closely with how labs manage and review digital slides. For labs expanding digital pathology, a practical question is how much work it takes to connect the scanners and applications they already use.
Agilent describes Concentriq as vendor-agnostic. I’ll be watching whether tighter integration makes daily work easier while preserving labs’ choice of scanners and software.
Disclosure. I previously worked at Agilent.