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Inverness Medical Innovations Inc. / Ischemia Technologies Inc.

2004 · Acquisition/Merger · $22M · Complete

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A $22-27M stock deal for an FDA-cleared cardiac biomarker test that never became commercially meaningful and was clinically discredited over the following decade

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Feb 17, 2005 BioWorld — Inverness Acquiring Ischemia In Stock Deal Worth $22.4M Neutral

Inverness will provide about $22.4 million of its common stock; IMI (AMEX:IMA) closed at $23.05 the day of announcement, down 81 cents.

Jul 01, 2021 PMC — Ischemia-Modified Albumin: Origins and Clinical Implications Neutral

Ischemia Technologies Incorporated (Denver, Colorado) used these findings to develop the Albumin Cobalt Binding test (ACB) that was approved in 2003 by the…

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~$22.4M Inverness common stock; acute coronary syndrome biomarker (albumin cobalt binding test)

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A $22-27M stock deal for an FDA-cleared cardiac biomarker test that never became commercially meaningful and was clinically discredited over the following decade

Strategic verdict
Failed to Achieve

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