— Our Challenges
Our challenges are real business questions predominantly from the field of Personalised Healthcare (PHC) that need to be answered to do now what patients need next. PHC describes the vision of Roche to ensure that the screening, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases will more quickly and effectively transform the lives of people around the globe – enabling the right treatment for the right patient at the right time. Therefore, it is key to bring together a unique understanding of human biology with new ways to analyse health data.
Greenfield Challenge
You have an idea to solve crucial healthcare questions through data know-how? You are looking for Roche as an industry partner to put your idea into practice? Then share it with us and we will come back to you if and how we can collaborate on your idea.
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Apply until 16 April 2023 / Xplorers Camp on 27 April 2023
Advanced methods for signature analysis: signature meta scoring using annotated gene sets
In transcription, the DNA sequence of a gene is copied (i.e., “expressed”) to make an RNA molecule which can be directly functional or be the intermediate template for a protein that performs a function. Gene expression data contains the expression levels of all genes in the organism. Geneset analysis is crucial for interpreting the results of such complex data.
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Apply until 16 April 2023 / Xplorers Camp on 08 May 2023
Patient-level outlier detection using knowledge graphs
Join us in our exploratory journey to leverage healthcare data with knowledge graphs to detect outliers, improve data quality and even generate insight.
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Apply until 16 April 2023 / Xplorers Camp on 26 April 2023
Understanding and correcting missing and erroneous data in diabetes-related time series
The purpose of this challenge is to address missing and erroneous data from RWD, in particular diabetic patients, that consists of multiple time series.
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Apply until 16 April 2023 / Xplorers Camp on 25 April 2023
Understand changes to patients’ quality of life through the clinical workflow
Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) is the perceived well-being of an individual. The clinical workflow is all the steps related to the delivery of care. Aspects such as treatment and age can influence HRQOL. In this challenge, we want to understand the change of HRQOL along with clinical workflow.
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For students
Participating is really easy: have a look at our challenges, select the one you want to tackle and submit your idea (3 to 5 PPT slides).
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For universities
If you already have a research team working in the field of one of our challenges, please get in touch with us directly to discuss a potential cooperation.
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