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 and BioNTech report new data on Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent booster
- GSK announces positive Phase IIa study results for a new first-in-class candidate medicine for patients with tuberculosis
- Sanofi and GSK's next-generation COVID-19 booster vaccine VidPrevtyn® Beta approved by the European Commission
- Pfizer and BioNTech receive positive CHMP opinion for Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster for children 5 through 11 years of age in European Union
- Vividion Therapeutics names Jenna Goldberg as Chief Medical Officer
Research & Development
- AI tailors artificial DNA for future drug development
- Remdesivir reduces COVID-19 mortality in a real-world setting
- Pocket feature shared by deadly coronaviruses could lead to pan-coronavirus antiviral treatment
- Cryptic drug-binding sites discovered in the dance
- Unusual type of antibody shows ultrapotent activity against Zika
- Machine learning can help predict patient response to cancer immunotherapy
- New drug shows promise for fighting both COVID-19 and cancer
Conferences & Events
- 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
- 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
Regulatory Affairs
- FDA approves first gene therapy to treat adults with Hemophilia B
- FDA approves first treatment for Acid Sphingomyelinase Deficiency, a rare genetic disease
- 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