Published on: 18 September 2017

Meet Magdalena

Hi, my name is Magdalena, and I come from the Czech Republic. After gaining my Master’s degree in Medicine, I joined the MD PhD programme in Hemato-oncology at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University (Prague).

Tags: Switzerland, Basel, Career Blog, Research

Published on: 23 November 2016

Meet Rachelle

Hi, my name is Rachelle. I am pleased to have recently joined Genentech/Roche after more than 25 years of working in academic medicine. My background is in neurology and cognitive anthropology, but my training has been applied to understanding and remediating Alzheimer’s disease.

Tags: Career Blog, Switzerland, Basel, Research

Published on: 22 November 2016

Meet Karen

Hi, my name is Karen. I was born in England and moved to Switzerland in January 2009. My typical day at work is definitely not typical.

Tags: Career Blog, Switzerland, Basel, Research

Published on: 14 October 2016

Meet Moritz

Hi, my name is Moritz. I grew up in Mainz in Germany, a city similar in size to Basel and located about 30 km west of Frankfurt/Main. I studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Bingen and completed my degree in Bioinformatics in 2007.

Tags: Career Blog, Switzerland, Basel, Research

Published on: 7 October 2016

Meet Irene

Hi, my name is Irene. I am from Lucerne, Switzerland, and joined Roche 3 years ago from the University of Zurich. I was a principal investigator in Alzheimer’s disease research focusing on the neuroimmunological mechanisms of chronic neurodegenerative diseases.

Tags: Career Blog, Switzerland, Basel, Research

Published on: 29 August 2016

Meet Manuel

Hi, my name is Manuel and I am studying chemistry as part of my Master of Science (MSc) programme at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU), with an emphasis on organic and inorganic chemistry. I am currently doing an internship in the field of organic synthesis as part of the Roche Internship in Medicinal Chemistry (RiCH) Programme in Basel, Switzerland.

Tags: Career Blog, Switzerland, Basel, Interns, Research

Published on: 20 May 2016

Meet Tobias

Hi, my name is Tobias and I come from Germany. I joined the Roche Ophthalmology Department in November 2015 as a RiSE (Roche Internship for Scientific Exchange) intern, and I work on a genetics project.

Tags: Career Blog, Switzerland, Basel, Interns, Research

Published on: 4 May 2016

Meet Daniela

Hi, my name is Daniela, I was born and raised in Milan, Italy. My academic mentor suggested that I should apply for an internship on the Roche internships for Scientific Exchange (RiSE) program. Since I viewed it as a great opportunity to grow as a scientist, I was very keen to apply, and that is how I joined Roche.

Tags: Career Blog, Switzerland, Basel, Interns, Research

Published on: 7 April 2016

Meet Astrid

My work helps Roche to help patients by bringing forward more effective and personalised new therapies and combinations that will lead to long-term benefit, and even cures for them. I want to understand what is driving their disease.

Tags: Career Blog, Basel, Research, Switzerland

Published on: 5 January 2016

Meet Dean

Hi, my name is Dean and I am a British citizen. I joined Roche from the United Kingdom, where I was working as a management consultant for the pharma industry.

Tags: Basel, Research, Switzerland, Career Blog

Published on: 3 November 2015

Research

Our answer to medical needs is innovation.

Tags: Research

Published on: 10 September 2015

Meet Annalisa

I am Annalisa and I joined Roche at the beginning of May 2015. I am originally from Italy, but I left my country more than 20 years ago for what was supposed to be a couple of years of training in the USA during my PhD.

Tags: Career Blog, Basel, Switzerland, Research

Published on: 7 September 2015

Meet Caroline

My name is Caroline. I am an expert in flow cytometry, which is a technology used to analyse immune cells.

Tags: Career Blog, Switzerland, Research, Schlieren

Published on: 27 January 2015

Meet Christoph

I work at Roche Diagnostics in Rotkreuz and live in Arth, which gives me a very short commute, something I have come to appreciate very much compared to earlier jobs. The Rotkreuz site has grown extremely fast in the last years and therefore, many new and modern offices and production buildings have been built.

Tags: Career Blog, Development, Research, Rotkreuz, Switzerland

Published on: 14 December 2014

Research in a nutshell

It is scientific excellence that leads to the healthcare breakthroughs of tomorrow. At Roche, we are tireless in the research and development of clinically differentiated pharmaceuticals and adequate diagnostic instruments.

Tags: Research

Published on: 14 December 2014

The Roche Postdoctoral Fellowship (RPF) Programme

The Roche Postdoctoral Fellowship programme was established within Roche to build and maintain the Scientific Leadership of the future. The programme provides leading internal scientists with the opportunity to collaborate with talented postdoctoral researchers, and leading academic research groups, from around the world.

Tags: Research

Published on: 14 December 2014

Meet Drew

Originally from Ohio, I obtained my BS in mechanical engineering and MS in biomedical engineering from The Ohio State University. Since then I’ve spent over 8 years working in various roles related to Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)

Tags: Career Blog, Research, USA

Published on: 14 December 2014

Meet Fiona

I’ve been working in the PCOR Neurosciences group for just over a year. Before starting at Roche I was working as a clinical psychologist in older adult mental health services...

Tags: Career Blog, Research

Published on: 4 June 2014

A long life entirely devoted to science

Every single seat in the large auditorium in Building 71 was occupied at 10.30 a.m. on 22 January, as Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa took the podium to give a lecture on the Neuroscience of Memory.

Tags: Sustainability, Research, Science