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Roche Holding

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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, virology, inflammation, metabolism and CNS. Roche is also the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics, tissue-based cancer diagnostics and a pioneer in diabetes management. Roche’s personalised healthcare strategy aims at providing medicines and diagnostic tools that enable tangible improvements in the health, quality of life and survival of patients. In 2009, Roche had over 80’000 employees worldwide and invested almost 10 billion Swiss francs in R&D. The Group posted sales of 49.1 billion Swiss francs. Genentech, United States, is a wholly owned member of the Roche Group. Roche has a majority stake in Chugai Pharmaceutical, Japan.

Recent Milestones

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  Roche Holding acquired MTM Laboratories for €130M. (7/19/11)
  Posted 7/19/11 at 9:23pm via roche.com
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  Roche Holding acquired BioImagene for $100M. (8/23/10)
  Posted 8/23/10 at 6:11pm via bioimagene.com
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  Roche Holding acquired Mirus Bio for $125M. (7/22/08)
  Posted 9/14/09 at 6:08am via alacrastore.com
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  Roche Holding acquired Arius Research for $143M. (7/22/08)
  Posted 9/17/09 at 5:59pm
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  Roche Holding acquired Therapeutic Human Polyclonals for $56.5M. (4/2/07)
  Posted 11/5/09 at 6:24pm via venturebeat.com
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  Roche Holding added Franz Humer as Chairman.
  Posted 9/14/09 at 6:08am

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Sources

1. Roche acquires mtm laboratories AG, expanding offering in cervical cancer testing (roche.com) [edit]
2. Roche Acquires BioImagene, a Leading Provider of Digital Pathology Laboratory Solutions (bioimagene.com) [edit]
3. Cap Funding Report [edit]
4. Roche Holding AG acquires Mirus Bio Corp (alacrastore.com) [edit]
5. Roche acquires antibody research co., THP, for $56.5M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]