Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is one of the world’s leading research focused healthcare groups in the fields of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. As the world’s biggest biotech company, Roche contributes on a broad range of fronts to improving people’s health and quality of life by supplying innovative products and services for the early detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
Roche is a world leader in in-vitro diagnostics, the leading supplier of medicines for cancer and transplantation and a market leader in virology. Roche employs more than 80 000 people in 150 countries.
In addition to supporting a large number of humanitarian projects and promoting scientific research, it has a long-standing commit ment to contemporary art as a means of expressing innovation. Thus Roche has provided funding for the Mario Botta-designed Museum Tinguely in Basel since 1996.
The Roche Group also sponsors Roche Commissions, a joint project with the Lucerne Festival, Carnegie Hall and The Cleveland Orchestra, in which new works are commissioned from contemporary composers and receive their public premiere. It also promotes challenging jazz and since 2007 sponsors the “Kontinente” contemporary music series at the Salzburg Festival and the “Roche Continents” project. Additional information about the Roche Group is available on the Internet at: www.roche.com.