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
- Novartis signs new initial agreement with BioNTech to support fill and finish of the mRNA Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
- Global Heart Hub and Novartis partner to tackle ASCVD, a global health crisis and world’s #1 killer
- Petrovax Pharm is taking part in the international pharmaceutical exhibition CPhI Worldwide-2021
- Roche's anti-amyloid beta antibody gantenerumab granted FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation in Alzheimer's disease
- Positive results from the first study of high-dose influenza vaccine with a COVID-19 mRNA booster support co-administration recommendations
Research & Development
- Common antidepressant should no longer be used to treat people with dementia
- High effectiveness of mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccines
- One coronavirus vaccine may protect against other coronaviruses
- Vaccines effective against most SARS-CoV-2 variants
- Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS-CoV-2
- mRNA COVID vaccines highly effective at preventing symptomatic infection in health workers
- How to develop new drugs based on merged datasets
Conferences & Events
- 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
- Don't fall for the 'next best action' trap
- Locking down shape-shifting spike protein aids development of COVID-19 vaccine
Regulatory Affairs
- FDA takes additional actions on the use of a booster dose for COVID-19 vaccines
- FDA awards 11 grants to clinical trials to develop new medical products for rare disease treatments
- FDA approves innovative treatment for pediatric patients with congenital athymia
- FDA authorizes software that can help identify prostate cancer
- FDA advances data, IT modernization efforts with new office of digital transformation