F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Switzerland
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Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management.
Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. More than thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Moreover, for the twelfth consecutive year, Roche has been recognised as one of the most sustainable companies in the Pharmaceuticals Industry by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
The Roche Group, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, is active in over 100 countries and in 2020 employed more than 100,000 people worldwide. In 2020, Roche invested CHF 12.2 billion in R&D and posted sales of CHF 58.3 billion. Genentech, in the United States, is a wholly owned member of the Roche Group. Roche is the majority shareholder in Chugai Pharmaceutical, Japan.
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1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020
Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All
The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG published between 1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.
Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.
| Count | Share |
|---|---|
| 146 | 58.79 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
| Subject | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life Sciences | 118 | 41.64 | |
| American Journal of Human Genetics | 1 | 0.17 | |
| Cancer Cell | 1 | 0.59 | |
| Cancer Research | 8 | 3.56 | |
| Cell | 4 | 1.83 | |
| Cell Stem Cell | 2 | 0.50 | |
| Current Biology | 2 | 0.11 | |
| Developmental Cell | 1 | 0.25 | |
| Immunity | 2 | 0.96 | |
| Journal of Biological Chemistry | 2 | 1.10 | |
| Journal of Cell Biology | 1 | 1 | |
| Journal of Clinical Investigation | 5 | 0.31 | |
| Journal of Experimental Medicine | 4 | 1.22 | |
| Journal of Neuroscience | 2 | 2 | |
| Molecular Cell | 3 | 1.48 | |
| Molecular Psychiatry | 3 | 0.40 | |
| Nature | 10 | 3.78 | |
| Nature Biotechnology | 2 | 0.07 | |
| Nature Chemical Biology | 2 | 0.24 | |
| Nature Communications | 17 | 5.96 | |
| Nature Genetics | 1 | 0.48 | |
| Nature Medicine | 5 | 1.05 | |
| Nature Methods | 1 | 0.09 | |
| Nature Structural & Molecular Biology | 2 | 1.56 | |
| Neuron | 1 | 0.92 | |
| PLOS Biology | 1 | 0.11 | |
| PLOS Genetics | 1 | 0.08 | |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 14 | 6.64 | |
| Science | 3 | 1.93 | |
| Science Advances | 3 | 0.76 | |
| Science Translational Medicine | 4 | 1.06 | |
| eLife | 10 | 1.42 | |
| Chemistry | 34 | 19.67 | |
| Physical Sciences | 2 | 0.74 | |
| Earth & Environmental Sciences | 1 | 0.50 | |
Highlight of the month
A hormone-mimicking weight-loss drug
© Felipe Caparrós Cruz/EyeEm/Getty Images
An experimental drug designed to mimic a metabolic hormone is showing early promise as an anti-obesity treatment.
A team from Genentech, a Roche subsidiary, designed a bispecific antibody drug to bind and activate two receptors normally triggered by fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), a hormone involved in regulating fat and sugar use.
The researchers first evaluated the drug in obese monkeys. A single injection caused profound weight loss, with marked reductions in food consumption to boot.
They next tested the therapy in 71 obese or overweight individuals, each of whom received a single injection of the drug or a placebo under the skin. The drug was well tolerated, improved blood measures of cardiometabolic health and, compared to the placebo, caused significant reductions in body weight. Both caloric intake and a desire for sweet foods decreased as well.
Roche is now investigating the drug in larger trials involving people with an advanced form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
- PNAS 117, 28992-29000 (2020). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2012073117
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Top articles by Altmetric score in current window
Using human genetics to understand the disease impacts of testosterone in men and women
Nature Medicine
2020-02-10
The Indian cobra reference genome and transcriptome enables comprehensive identification of venom toxins
Nature Genetics
2020-01-06
1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 8.66% Domestic
- 91.34% International
Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (22 total)
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland
- Domestic institution
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University of Basel (UB), Switzerland
(3.87)
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University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland
(2.89)
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland
(2.06)
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University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland
(1.40)
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University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland
(1.37)
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Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Switzerland
(1.10)
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Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Switzerland
(1.04)
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Novartis International AG, Switzerland
(1.02)
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Arcadis Schweiz AG, Switzerland
(1)
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Geneva-Lausanne School of Pharmacy (EPGL), Switzerland
(1)
Top 10 international collaborators by Share (990 total)
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland
- Foreign institution
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Harvard University, United States of America (USA)
(8.92)
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University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)
(4.62)
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Stanford University, United States of America (USA)
(3.61)
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Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK)
(3.10)
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Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany
(2.96)
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Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands
(2.79)
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Leiden University, Netherlands
(2.71)
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA)
(2.48)
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National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA)
(2.16)
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Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany
(2.16)
Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
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