Corporate Body

Hoffman-La Roche

From
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Functions
Pharmaceuticals or Medical Aids
Alternative Names
  • Roche (Now known as)
Website
http://www.roche.com/home.htm
Location
Sydney, New South Wales

Summary

In 1974 Hoffman-La Roche, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, established a Research Institute for Marine Pharmacology. The original company F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. was founded on October 1st 1896. Since then it has developed into a global business which is today called Roche.

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  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_h.html. Details
  • Hawgood, Barbara J., 'The Marine Biologist - Bob Endean', Toxicon, 48 (7) (2009), 768-779 . Details
  • Rae, Ian D., 'The Roche Research Institute of Marine Pharmacology, 1974-1981: Searching for Drug Leads', Historical Records of Australian Science, 20 (2) (2009), 209-231 , https://doi.org/10.1071/HR09013. Details

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