F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Switzerland
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1 May 2019 - 30 April 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 May 2019 - 30 April 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 |
|---|---|
| 158 | 58.21 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
Highlight of the month
Body-on-a-chip accelerates drug testing
© WLADIMIR BULGAR/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty
A multi-organ system on a chip could help to speed up the preclinical evaluation of potential anticancer therapeutics.
The development of new drugs is slow and costly. Current methods for testing drug safety in the preclinical stage can detect the cytotoxicity of the drugs themselves, but miss the effects of drug metabolites.
Now, a team that included Roche scientists has developed a five-chamber, reconfigurable, microfluidic device that can house different populations of human cells, both cancerous and healthy, with a circulating medium designed to mimic blood flow in the body.
The team introduced liver and heart cells alongside various cancer cells into the system. They then added assorted drugs and catalogued the ways in which these agents both killed tumour cells (although sometimes only after being metabolized by liver cells) and harmed healthy tissues.
The efficacy and toxicity findings matched data previously generated in animal models, demonstrating the usefulness of the microfluidic device for screening drugs.
- Science Translational Medicine 11, eaav1386 (2019). doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aav1386
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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 May 2019 - 30 April 2020
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 9.85% Domestic
- 90.15% International
Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (19 total)
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland
- Domestic institution
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University of Basel (UB), Switzerland
(7.03)
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Department of Biomedicine Basel, Switzerland
(2.57)
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University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland
(2.35)
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University Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB), Switzerland
(2.01)
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Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland
(1.94)
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University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland
(1.80)
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland
(1.64)
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University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland
(1.13)
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
(1.08)
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Novartis International AG, Switzerland
(1.03)
Top 10 international collaborators by Share (1046 total)
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland
- Foreign institution
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Harvard University, United States of America (USA)
(8.49)
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University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)
(8.09)
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Stanford University, United States of America (USA)
(4.78)
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Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands
(3.75)
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U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA)
(2.23)
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University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)
(2.18)
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Max Planck Society, Germany
(2.11)
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University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)
(2.08)
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University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)
(2.05)
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Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany
(2.04)
Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
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