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
- Roche initiates phase III clinical trial of Actemra/RoActemra plus remdesivir in hospitalised patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia
- Sanofi intends to sell its equity investment in Regeneron; confirms no change to ongoing collaboration
- AstraZeneca advances response to global COVID-19 challenge as it receives first commitments for Oxford's potential new vaccine
- Pfizer and BioNTech dose first participants in the U.S. as part of global COVID-19 mRNA vaccine development program
- Roche's COVID-19 antibody test receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization and is available in markets accepting the CE mark
Research & Development
- A roadmap for effective treatment of COVID-19
- Glucocorticoids are harmful in treating viral respiratory infections
- As businesses reopen, it's crucial we wear masks, safely distance
- Peer-reviewed data shows remdesivir for COVID-19 improves time to recovery
- Preventing 'cytokine storm' may ease severe COVID-19 symptoms
- Official COVID-19 deaths underestimate the full impact of the pandemic
- Local climate unlikely to drive the early COVID-19 pandemic
Conferences & Events
- Pre-filled Syringes San Francisco Conference 2020
- Oligonucleotide Therapeutics and Delivery Conference 2020
- Pre-Filled Syringes West Coast 2021
- Pre-Filled Syringes East Coast Conference 2020
- SMi's 4th Annual Pharmaceutical Microbiology West Coast
- SMi's 20th Annual Pain Therapeutics Conference 2020
- SMi's 3rd Annual Pharmaceutical Microbiology East Coast
Regulatory Affairs
- Global regulators commit to cooperate on observational research in the context of COVID-19
- FDA takes new actions to accelerate development of novel prevention, treatment options for COVID-19
- FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for Potential COVID-19 Treatment
- FDA reiterates importance of close patient supervision for 'off-label' use of antimalarial drugs
- FDA encourages recovered patients to donate plasma for development of blood-related therapies