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Roche Holding AG

  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    News in-depthDrugs research
    Roche data shows stomach-churning side effects of weight-loss drugs

    High rates of vomiting among those who took strong doses in trials have unsettled investors

  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    The cost of cracking cancer
    The cost of cracking cancer: what the $1tn race for a cure leaves behind

    The first in an FT series looking at the new energy behind the fight for cancer cures

    A montage showing a scientist wearing protective gear, including a hairnet, mask, and gloves, handling a syringe. To the right, a petri dish with nematodes visible inside. The background features an image of pancreatic cancer cells.
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Drugs research
    How Roche passed on a potential $14bn-a-year weight-loss pill

    The Swiss company had the first option on a drug that could now become a leading anti-obesity treatment

    Injection pen parts on the Wegovy production line
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Roche considers options for $1.9bn cancer data start-up

    Swiss drugmaker examines options for Flatiron Health after acquisition has disappointed

    Roche logo on the side of a building in Basel, Switzerland
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    Roche to fast-track weight-loss pill to compete with rivals

    Swiss drugmaker unveils promising data for obesity drug

    Passers-by are silhouetted as they walk along the banks of river Rhine next to the Roche towers
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Roche says obesity drug results ‘encouraging’ as competition heats up

    Weekly injection delivered 18.8% weight loss over 24 weeks

    A scientist works inside Roche’s research lab
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    Roche cuts drug pipeline in effort to revitalise business

    Swiss pharma group has jettisoned 16 drugs that ‘don’t have the promise to be transformative medicines’

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    European equities
    Europe’s ‘Granolas’ fuel record stock market surge

    Group of 11 pharma, tech and luxury shares echoes US dominance of ‘Magnificent Seven’

    A montage showing a Wegovy injection dose, the ASML logo and luxury products, including nail polish and a handbag, against two chart lines
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    Antibiotic resistance
    New drug offers hope in fight against hospital ‘superbugs’

    Potential remedy targets leading antibiotic-resistant pathogen that causes life-threatening infections in patients

    A computer illustration of multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria inside biofilm
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    Lex
    Roche: fat fighter drugs buy must precede trial wins Premium content

    The Swiss pharma group needs to settle investor jitters with its latest acquisition

    Photograph of Thomas Schinecker.Carmot Therapeutics is the second bolt-on acquisition by Roche’s new chief executive Thomas Schinecker in less than two months
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    Roche to buy Carmot for up to $3.1bn as race for obesity drugs intensifies

    Swiss pharmaceutical group is under pressure to strengthen its pipeline of medicines

    The Roche sign on at the company’s headquarters in Basel
  • Monday, 23 October, 2023
    Lex
    Roche: Telavant acquisition fails to inflame investors’ spirits Premium content

    Bolt-on acquisitions, however interesting, will not get Swiss pharmaceuticals group Roche out of its funk

    Roche chief executive Thomas Schinecker
  • Monday, 23 October, 2023
    Drugs research
    Roche agrees $7.1bn deal for Telavant to boost drug pipeline

    Swiss pharma group acquires rights to develop and manufacture bowel disease treatment

    A Roche sign on the side of the company’s headquarters in Basel, Switzerland
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    Drugs research
    Roche inadvertently publishes positive results from lung cancer drug study

    Shares in Swiss pharma group rally after analyst discovers data on immunotherapy medicine on website

    The Roche logo on its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland
  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    Use of horseshoe crabs’ blue blood puts pharma groups under scrutiny

    BNP Paribas joins environmentalists in pressing companies to run toxin tests with synthetic substances

    Person holds a horseshoe crab
  • Monday, 14 November, 2022
    Roche late-stage Alzheimer’s trials end in failure

    Two studies of antibody treatment gantenerumab fail to slow decline in people with early-stage disease

    A brain scan showing Alzheimer’s disease
  • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
    Roche’s sales of Covid drugs fall by $1bn

    Swiss pharma group says demand for coronavirus tests dropped as severity of virus ebbed

    Roche chief executive Severin Schwan
  • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
    Roche’s chief executive to step down and become chair

    Severin Schwan will be succeeded by Thomas Schinecker, head of drugmaker’s diagnostics unit

    Severin Schwan has helmed Roche as chief executive since 2008
  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    LexCoronavirus treatment
    Roche/diagnostics: Covid vaccine victory means test makers take a rest Premium content

    Do not dismiss the possibility of another upturn in the coronavirus testing market

    A man gets tested for Covid in New York City
  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Roche sales boosted by North American demand for Covid tests

    Swiss pharmaceuticals group expects revenue from coronavirus treatments will decline this year

    A Roche rapid test for coronavirus
  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
    LexPharmaceuticals sector
    Breast cancer: precision drugs make inroads against stubborn tumours Premium content

    New therapies replace a blunderbuss with a stiletto

    A phial and packs of Herceptin sit on a pharmacy shelf
  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    Novartis to sell its Roche stake worth $21bn

    Twenty-year shareholding had kept the two Swiss drugmakers closely linked

    Roche logo
  • Thursday, 5 August, 2021
    Due Diligence
    SoftBank’s newfangled bet on a 125-year-old drugmaker Premium content

    Plus, inside the cut-throat game of private equity and European football

  • Wednesday, 4 August, 2021
    LexPharmaceuticals sector
    SoftBank/Roche: Northstar reorients to embrace drug development Premium content

    The Swiss company and Japanese tech investor both have a taste for big data and disruption

    Roche HQ in Basel, Switzerland
  • Wednesday, 4 August, 2021
    SoftBank Group Corp
    SoftBank acquires $5bn stake in Swiss drugmaker Roche

    Deal struck through unit of Japanese technology group that was behind ‘Nasdaq whale’ trade

    A Roche plant in the Swiss village of Rotkreuz
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