The Roche Group – including Genentech and Chugai – is
the world’s biggest biotech company with research and production facilities around the world.
With
over half a century of experience in the field, the Roche Group supplies a wide range of biopharmaceuticals
and biotech-based diagnostic tests to physicians and patients worldwide.
Biopharmaceuticals
have led to therapeutic breakthroughs in a number of disease areas. Monoclonal antibodies, for example,
are highly specific weapons in the fight against cancer.
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Therapeutic products | |
| MabThera/Rituxan | Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma |
| NeoRecormon/Epogin | Anemia |
| Pegasys and Copegus | Hepatitis C |
| Herceptin | Metastatic breast cancer |
Roferon-A
(interferon alfa-2a) | Blood cancer |
| Zenapax | Transplantation (prevention of rejection) |
| Avastin | Cancer |
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Diagnostic products | |
PCR (polymerase chain reaction) based tests such as:
Cobas Amplicor
Ampli Screen | PCR has evolved to be the „gold standard“ of molecular diagnosis. Through amplification of genetic material it allows to identify viruses and/or bacteria such as HIV, Hepatitis C or Chlamydia as well as genetic variations in human genes. |
AmpliChip
microarrays | Product line designed to enable comprehensiv analysis of complex genetic information.
Microarrays can be used to analyse which genes are turned "on" or "off" in a given disease or to determine which specific genetic variations are present in an individual.
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| | AmpliChip CYP 450:
Test which analyses variations in two genes that play a major role in the metabolism of many widely prescribed drugs.
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Diagnostic tests with biotech based components | As for example:
- Blood sugar level
- Bone metabolism
- Heart attacks |
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