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
- GSK and Vir Biotechnology announce United States government agreement to purchase additional supply of sotrovimab
- New Vaxzevria data further support its use as third dose booster
- Novartis and Molecular Partners report positive topline data from Phase 2 study for ensovibep (MP0420), a DARPin antiviral therapeutic for COVID-19
- Amgen and Arrakis Therapeutics announce multi-target collaboration to identify novel RNA degrader small molecule therapeutics
- Bayer and Mammoth Biosciences to collaborate on novel gene editing technolog
Research & Development
- WHO recommends two new drugs to treat patients with COVID-19
- Research team finds new dual benefit mode of action for a drug candidate to fight COVID-19
- COVID-19 - Omicron: resistant to most monoclonal antibodies but neutralized by a booster dose
- COVID-19 can trigger self-attacking antibodies
- Treatments in weeks, not months: Scientists develop ambitious pandemic response plan
- Scientists identify antibodies that can neutralize omicron
- Stopping dementia at the nose with combination of rifampicin and resveratrol
Conferences & Events
- New vaccine ingredient shows promise
- Modernise your Medical Affairs Insight Management with ViiV Healthcare, Eisai, ASC Therapeutics and Within3
- Novartis, Bayer and Boehringer Ingelheim to showcase their commitment to a reimagined pharma industry
- Scientists urge for investment now in highly potent vaccines to prevent the next pandemic
- CPhI Worldwide to return in 2021
- Reuters Events' Cell & Gene Therapy USA
- Total health: Build a better healthcare system
Regulatory Affairs
- FDA authorizes additional oral antiviral for treatment of COVID-19 in certain adults
- FDA authorizes first oral antiviral for treatment of COVID-19
- FDA expands eligibility for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster dose to 16- and 17-year-olds
- FDA authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in children 5 through 11 years of age
- FDA, NIH, and 15 private organizations join forces to increase effective gene therapies for rare diseases