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Robert B. Ford

Robert B. Ford

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Abbott Laboratories

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"We see a future of more preventative, predictive and personalized diagnostics." โ€” Robert Ford, announcing the acquisition, November 2025

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Abbott absorbs Exact Sciences, creating a cancer diagnostics giant

Money Moves

Leading post-acquisition integration

Abbott Laboratories closed its $21 billion acquisition of Exact Sciences on March 23, making the maker of the Cologuard colorectal cancer screening test a wholly owned subsidiary of one of the world's largest healthcare companies. The all-cash deal, at $105 per share, passed through antitrust review without a second request from regulatorsโ€”a sign of how little the two companies' product lines overlapped before this combination.

Updated Mar 23