8 growth areas in life sciences, healthcare in 2021

Published March 30, 2021

Market Sector	Growth
Vaccine technology	Next-generation vaccines such as nanoparticles (including virus-like particles), mRNA, synthetic, and recombinant vaccines
Virtual care	COVID-19; Rise in home-based diagnostics; digital, wearable, connected devices
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based medical imaging	Rising volumes of patient imaging, acute shortage of radiologists required to review them
Hospital efficiency solutions	Increased aging population and patients with chronic conditions; Shortage of healthcare personnel; push for value-based care
Digital biomarkers	Improve personalized treatment, preventive measures; Biopharma precision drug development; Provides reactive, preventive approach to healthcare
Microbiome therapeutics	Three potential therapies undergoing pivotal clinical studies and likely to garner U.S. FDA nods in 2021; no approvals yet
Combination immuno-oncology (I-O) therapies	Rising cancer cases and increasing R&D investments; Demonstrated effectiveness of combination therapy
Laboratory information management solutions (LIMS)	Data migration from legacy infrastructures to the cloud; increasingly complex data management, storage, analytics

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