Pharmaceutical giant Roche acquired Flatiron Health in 2018 for $1,900,000,000. This was mainly due to Flatiron’s datasets in oncological research. The research data will be fed to AI for potential drug discovery.
Transactions like this are not so uncommon in the data economy. Datasets from the health domain wager huge price tags for the right buyers.
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