Research & Development

We are embracing the best technology and partnerships that leverage the power of our unique structure to advance science and develop new therapies.

What we are working on

Finding innovative solutions for unmet medical needs is at the heart of what we do. Our ideas and research help save lives.

More than 18,000 employees from all across the globe come to work each day to develop medical innovations.

To ensure a strong pipeline, we have built a network of R&D centers around the world.

By the numbers

CHF 9.9

billion invested in R&D in 2016¹

Be part of our community

Latest jobs

Praktikum im Bereich Proteinchemie (R&D Centralised and Point of Care Solutions) / Internship in the department of R&D protein chemistry (R&D Centralized and Point of Care Solutions)

Deutschland, Bayern, Penzberg

Director of System Engineering, Sequencing

United States, California, Santa Clara

Translational Medicine Leader Oncology in Pharma Research and Early Development (m/f)

Germany, Bavaria, Penzberg

Senior Scientific Researcher, Single Cell Genomics, NGS Lab

United States, California, South San Francisco

Sr. Scientific Researcher, Translational Oncology

United States, California, South San Francisco

In the spotlight

Personalised Healthcare

Working in both Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics, we are uniquely positioned to fit the treatment to the patients.

Cancer immunotherapy

As our understanding of the immune system and tumour biology expands, so does our hope for developing treatments that may change people’s live.

Roche at BIO 2017

Exhibitors from all fields meet in San Diego to experience powerful business partnering and benefit from invaluable education sessions.

Pipeline

Get up-to-date information about our Pharma and Diagnostics pipeline.

From molecule to medicine

It takes 12 years, more than 7 million hours of work, over 6,000 experiments and around 400 researchers to bring a medicine to market.

Clinical trials

Find out how we determine whether new drugs, diagnostics or procedures in the laboratory are both safe and effective when used to diagnose or treat people.

Go inside a lab where new medicines are made

Our research teams test thousands of compounds in the search for a new medicine. It takes many years and an investment of millions of Swiss francs. This lab in Basel is one of the first stages in that long journey.