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Roche’s focus is the search for innovative new medicines and diagnostics by funding and conducting R&D into serious and life-threatening diseases, investing 8.845 bn Swiss francs in 2008 ?
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Over 235,400 people took part in our clinical trials globally in 2008, receiving access to the latest treatments for cancer, arthritis and other diseases?
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Roche forges partnerships with governments and other healthcare providers because medicines and diagnostics are only one component of the healthcare puzzle?
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The CARE programme which in partnership with PharmAccess Foundation established HIV treatment programmes across Africa and educational events reaching over 600 healthcare professionals in 29 countries across Africa and Asia?
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The Phelophepa Health Care Train is a mobile clinic bringing medical care to rural South Africa, reaching out to people who have no access to basic medical services?
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Each year, the Phelophepa Health Care Train delivers health care to more than 45,000 rural South Africans in regions where there is just one doctor for every 4,000 patients.
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The Roche Children’s Walk has enabled 3,000 children from 60 villages in Malawi to receive hot meals, health check-ups and education at day centres.
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AIDS Technology Transfer Initiative, launched in 2006 shares, the knowledge Roche has developed to manufacture saquinavir with local manufacturers in sub-Saharan Africa and Least Developed Countries free of charge?
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Since 2002, we have supplied our HIV/AIDS medicines, Invirase and Viracept, at no profit prices for people living in Least Developed Countries and sub-Saharan Africa?
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Our no profit, no patent policies for Roche’s HIV medicines apply to 70% of all people with HIV/AIDS worldwide?
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Our Employee Secondment Policy enables our employees to contribute their skills and transfer their expertise to health related projects primarily in the world’s Least Developed Countries?
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Roche has trained apprentices since the 1950's and every year in Basel alone some 300 young people are trained in 14 different professions?
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more than 140 nationalities are represented at Roche?
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in 2008 Roche invested around 2.4 million hours in skills training and education, or nearly 29 hours per employee?
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Roche has about 80'000 employees world-wide and is active in around 150 countries around the globe?
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in 2008 Roche created around 470 additional jobs in Switzerland?
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People from over 60 countries – from Australia to Uruguay to South Africa – work for Roche in Switzerland?
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Roche currently has 931 apprentices working across the Group, including 156 new apprentices in 2008.
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In 2008 more than one-third of all Roche managers were women.
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Countless works of art decorate work and recreation areas as well as corridors in Roche buildings all over the world?
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Roche has been an active patron of contemporary art and cultural projects since its beginnings in 1896?
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Roche has had a corporate architecture before it had its own corporate design?
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In 1926, 30-year old Alice Keller took over a position at Roche Tokyo to come back in 1939 as a director?
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Roche is still majority owned by the descendants of the founder family?
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Roche is a valued partner to more than 80 companies worldwide to bring new complementary technologies and potential products into the company?
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Patients can access Roche products through doctors, hospitals, laboratories and pharmacies in roughly 180 countries?
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Roche is recognized as Health Care Sector Leader in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index in 2009 – selection places Roche as the most sustainable healthcare company worldwide
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Roche is the world's biggest producer of biopharmaceuticals?
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Roche produces more than 150 medicines in thousands of presentations around the world?
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Roche donated almost 11 million packs of Tamiflu in support of the WHO and global pandemic preparedness measures?
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Roche is the only company that brought 5 cancer treatments with proven survival benefits to patients?
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At the end of 2008 Roche was among 230 companies recognized by Realizing Rights and Business and the Human Rights Resource Centre for our public commitment to human rights.
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In 2008, around 235,000 patients actively participating in Roche clinical trials
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Each day about 7000 scientists work for Roche on developing new medicines?
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Roche spends each day around 23 million Swiss Francs on Research & Development?
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Roche has opened new research and development centers in China in 2004 and 2007? However Roche started its business in China much earlier by founding the subsidiary 'Hoffmann-La Roche Limited Company Shanghai' already in 1935
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Roche heavily invests in RNAi technology (targeted silencing of genes) one of the most promising approaches in developing new treatments against cancer, autoimmune and other diseases?
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Roche accounts for 9% of total Swiss expenditures on research and development? That’s one in every 11 Swiss Francs spent on research and development in Switzerland.
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The development program for the cancer medicine Avastin alone includes 40’000 patients in more than 450 clinical trials across 30 tumour types
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It takes around 7 million hours of work to develop one medicine
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It takes around 6587 experiments to develop one medicine
