Our Networks
The scientific community needs high-performance facilitating networks to foster and catalyze collaborative science worldwide. Roche developed two initiatives to unite expertises for humankind’s benefit: ImCore in 2016 and Insights Lab in 2021.
ImCore : International Multidisciplinary Centers of Oncology Research Excellence
The imCORE network (international multidisciplinary centers of oncology research excellence) unites experts from across the globe committed to advancing and accelerating cancer research and development to transform cancer treatment for patients. imCORE connects clinical, translational, scientific and data experts from 27 leading cancer research institutions worldwide with Roche in an open environment to collaborate on research, share information, expertise and technologies. Through the network Roche is funding over 120 studies to advance cutting edge cancer research and bring more effective treatments to patients sooner.
imCORE-generated research to date has published over 30 manuscripts and over 70 oral and poster presentations. Examples of publications in well-respected journals include Cell³, Nature⁴, Nature Medicine⁵ and JCI⁶. These studies inform many scientists and clinicians in the quest for improved cures for patients.
imCORE works with Institut Roche to find and bring together diverse teams of data scientists, researchers and clinicians with the necessary expertise to model increasingly complex data and understand the biological mechanisms underlying cancer in the quest for improved cures for patients.
Insights Lab: inventing the future of healthcare and biomedicine
Insights Lab is a catalyst for collaborative and multidisciplinary data-driven research and innovation.
As biomedical science moves into a new era, with the coalescence of data, biotechnological and biomedical innovations, in 2021, Pharma International Informatics (PIIX) and Institut Roche created Insights Lab, a Roche data-intensive think tank team to foster collaborative innovation and research.
Built on PIIX’s solid infrastructure, driving Roche’s digital strategy, and streamlined by the Institut’s expertise, Insights Lab supports the whole Roche value chain, from diagnostics and pharmaceuticals research to go-to-market considerations.
Insights Lab operates by:
• Connecting both internal and external biomedical, AI, and mathematical modeling expertises.
• Catalyzing and managing data-intensive collaborative research and innovation.
• Facilitating data infrastructure access and deployment.
Insights Lab supports and collaborates with:
• Roche and Genentech R&D, including teams in informatics, bioinformatics, and AI.
• External biomedical, computational, AI, and mathematics teams and stakeholders.
• ImCore, EU-Maths-In, and other networks of excellence.
Through high-value collaborations, Insights Lab aims to advance and accelerate open science with scientific output (publications, patents, and data generation), data sharing and interconnectivity, and IT infrastructure performance.