The Research Exchange Scholars Program (RESP) is an international science education initiative. The Program is supported by Roche as part of the company’s engagement in collaborative partnerships with academic, research, education and science communities, in order to promote interest in the natural sciences in general, and biotechnology in particular. 

 

It is also an opportunity for partnering with schools in proximity to Roche sites, which have students in select areas important to Roche’s thrust for innovation in life sciences and biotechnology. First schools benefitting from the program are the Johanna-Wittum-Schule in Pforzheim, Germany and the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics in the United States of America. Both schools have set a special focus on biotechnology and are sending 3 students each on this interesting international exchange.

 

The US students are conducting practical research work at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum) in Heidelberg during the 6 week Program, while the German students do research at the University of South Carolina. All six students also benefit from a wide variety of cultural activities and have opportunities to visit important biotechnology sites at Roche in Mannheim, Germany, in Basel, Switzerland and in Florence, South Carolina.

 

The schools were instrumental in initiating the exchange and have set up a long-term program aimed at conducting it regularly each year and are working to secure the necessary annual funding for the Program. Roche has acquired the organizational know-how for enabling such exchanges between countries, in case other international exchanges involving communities around important Roche sites are to arise.

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