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
- Pfizer to acquire Global Blood Therapeutics for $5.4 billion to enhance presence in rare hematology
- Roche's subcutaneous formulation of Tecentriq demonstrates positive Phase III results
- Bayer Consumer Health leaders propose new principles for science-led self-care
- GSK signs agreement to support pandemic preparedness in Europe
- Pfizer and BioNTech advance COVID-19 vaccine strategy with study start of next-generation vaccine candidate based on enhanced spike protein design
Research & Development
- Scientists create long-acting injectable drug delivery system for tuberculosis
- Treating cancer by sticking cells in place
- Vitamin K prevents cell death: a new function for a long-known molecule
- Disparities in United States COVID-19 vaccine distribution
- New needle-free nasal vaccine shows promise for COVID-19
- Scientists develop new biomimetic formulation for treating glioblastoma
- SARS-CoV-2 hijacks nanotubes between neurons to infect them
Conferences & Events
- New approach to treatment of deadly kidney cancer
- SAE Media Group proudly presents the 2nd Annual Aseptic Processing Conference
- Pharma join together to achieve new standards in digital and patient innovation for clinical transformation
- SMi's 22nd Annual Pain Therapeutics Conference
- SMi Group Introduces the 4th Annual Injectable Drug Delivery Conference 2022
- SMi's 5th Annual Pharmaceutical Microbiology East Coast Conference
- SMi's 3rd Annual AI in Drug Discovery Conference
Regulatory Affairs
- FDA approves first systemic treatment for alopecia areata
- FDA urges drug manufacturers to develop risk management plans to promote a dtronger, resilient drug supply chain
- FDA limits use of Janssen COVID-19 vaccine to certain individuals
- EMA establishes Cancer Medicines Forum with academia to optimise cancer treatments in clinical practice
- FDA approves first generic of Symbicort to treat asthma and COPD