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
- Evusheld long-acting antibody combination approved in the EU for the treatment of COVID-19
- Pfizer to supply Global Fund up to 6 million PAXLOVID™ treatment courses for low-and-middle-income countries
- WHO grants prequalification to GSK's Mosquirix - the first and only approved malaria vaccine
- Pfizer and BioNTech receive positive CHMP opinion for Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster in European Union
- Novartis invests in early technical development capabilities for next-generation biotherapeutics
Research & Development
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022
- Non-opioid compounds squelch pain without sedation
- Breakthrough brings potential glioblastoma drug into focus
- Similar medications cost more for humans compared to pets
- National CDC-funded study confirms that mRNA vaccines protect against serious COVID-19 during pregnancy
- 2nd Annual Next Generation Pharmaceutical Cleanrooms Conference
- Shutting down backup genes leads to cancer remission in mice
Conferences & Events
- Machine learning creates opportunity for new personalized therapies
- 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 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
- EMA establishes Cancer Medicines Forum with academia to optimise cancer treatments in clinical practice