Igen, a medical diagnostics company based in Gaithersburg, Md., has already taken advantage of the offer to raise $25 million.

Such contracts are often exceptionally complex because they typically cover millions of patients and may include tests the diagnostics company must send out to subcontractors.

Epitope, a 14-year-old diagnostics company that had $3 million in sales last year, has already performed thousands of clinical tests on the saliva collector.

It is a diagnostics company and in the grand scheme of things that is one of the least-exciting sectors of health care.

Although Quest, the largest medical diagnostics company in the country, had the urine samples and the test results, they were labeled by number, not by name.

There is little evidence that diagnostics companies are embracing partnerships with pharma companies to develop theranostics.

He gave Posin, now 63, information for diagnostics company SleepQuest, about 30 miles from his home in San Francisco.

Axial Biotech, Inc. is a privately held molecular diagnostics company.

Empire Genomics is a cancer molecular diagnostics company.

Prometheus is a specialty pharmaceutical and diagnostics company in the fields of gastroenterology and cancer; it was bought by Nestlé in 2011.