Roche
Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is a leader in research-focused healthcare with combined strengths in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and neuroscience. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Roche's personalised healthcare strategy aims at providing medicines and diagnostics that enable tangible improvements in the health, quality of life and survival of patients. Founded in 1896, Roche has been making important contributions to global health for more than a century. Twenty-nine medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and chemotherapy.
In 2014, the Roche Group employed 88,500 people worldwide, invested 8.9 billion Swiss francs in R&D and posted sales of 47.5 billion Swiss francs. Genentech, in the United States, is a wholly owned member of the Roche Group. Roche is the majority shareholder in Chugai Pharmaceutical, Japan.
Business & Industry
- Insilico Medicine brings AI-powered "ChatPandaGPT" to its target discovery platform
- BlueRock Therapeutics to incorporate wearable and invisible contactless digital health technologies from Rune Labs and Emerald Innovations in Parkinson's disease clinical trial
- Novartis Tafinlar + Mekinist approved by FDA for pediatric patients with BRAF V600E low-grade glioma
- AstraZeneca launches call for entries to the 2023 global R&D Postdoctoral Challenge
- Pfizer invests $43 billion to battle cancer
Research & Development
- 'Biohybrid' device could restore function in paralysed limbs
- Scientists use tardigrade proteins for human health breakthrough
- DNA treatment could delay paralysis that strikes nearly all patients with ALS
- Scientists reveal a potential new approach to treating liver cancer
- Normalizing tumor blood vessels may improve immunotherapy against brain cancer
- Engineered bacteria find tumors, then alert the authorities
- First nasal monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19 shows promise for treating virus, other diseases
Conferences & Events
- SAE Media Group proudly presents the 4th Annual AI in Drug Discovery Conference
- SAE Media Group's 6th annual 3D Cell Culture Conference
- CPHI Frankfurt returns to pre-pandemic strength as pharma industry booms again
- 14th Annual RNA Therapeutics: Investigating the next generation of genetic medicine through RNA based therapies
- CPHI Excellence in Pharma Award Winners 2022
- CPHI Frankfurt Report predicts huge funding overhang to drive contract services growth
- CPHI Frankfurt 2022: Global pharma confidence hits record high in the annual CPHI Pharma Index
Regulatory Affairs
- FDA grants Accelerated Approval for Alzheimer's disease treatment
- FDA approves new HIV drug for adults with limited treatment options
- FDA approves first gene therapy for the treatment of high-risk, non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer
- FDA approves first gene therapy to treat adults with Hemophilia B
- FDA approves first treatment for Acid Sphingomyelinase Deficiency, a rare genetic disease