Roche Opens New pRED Centre in Basel with an Investment of CHF 1.2 Billion
Roche opens new pRED Centre in Basel with an investment of CHF 1.2 billion to accelerate scientific innovation
Overview
Roche announced the opening of its new Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED) Centre at its global headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Equipped with cutting-edge technologies and housing around 1,000 state-of-the-art laboratory and office workplaces, the new centre brings together teams of scientists and researchers to accelerate scientific discoveries for patients.
From Roche Group
Severin Schwan, chairman of the Roche Group: “Roche has invested CHF 1.2 billion into the new pRED Centre, underscoring our ongoing commitment to supporting Switzerland in remaining a leading innovative life sciences hub, the country where Roche was founded over 125 years ago.”
From CEO of Roche Group
Thomas Schinecker, CEO of the Roche Group: “The new pRED Centre will play an integral role in collaborating with our research centres across the globe, aiming to boost the effectiveness and efficiency of our R&D, and to deliver the greatest impact for patients.”
From the pRED
Hans Clevers, head of pharma research and early development (pRED): “By investing in the new centre we are continuing to push scientific frontiers to translate innovation into medicines, to better meet the needs of our patients. The new centre will enable greater interaction and knowledge sharing across disciplines, for example, chemists, biologists and data scientists.”
About The new pRED Centre
The new pRED Centre consists of two high-rise laboratory buildings (114m, 72m), with cutting-edge lab technologies and digital solutions, alongside an office building and a convention centre (26m, 18m).
In total, there are 33 combined laboratories and office floors with 150 labs and workplaces for around 1,800 researchers.
The state-of-the-art buildings have been deliberately designed to foster collaboration and an end-to-end mindset, aiming to deliver the most transformative medicines to patients faster.
Investment by Roche
Since 2009, Roche invested 4.6 billion CHF into the Basel/Kaiseraugst site upgrade of which the inauguration of the pRED Centre marks the biggest single investment.
In addition, we are currently investing a further 1.2 billion CHF across the Basel site.
This totals an investment of 5.8 billion CHF into the development of the Basel/Kaiseraugst site from 2009 to 2030.
About Roche
Founded in 1896 in Basel, Switzerland, as one of the first industrial manufacturers of branded medicines, Roche has grown into the world’s largest biotechnology company and the global leader in in-vitro diagnostics.