— 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.

Advanced methods for signature analysis signature metascoring using annotated genesets_Roche_9848

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Advanced methods for signature analysis: signature metascoring using annotated gene sets

Gene set analysis is crucial for interpreting the results of RNASeq experiments. However, most signatures do not get used because of poor annotation.

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Algorithms for Liquid-Chromatography Optimization_Roche_4976

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Algorithms for liquid-chromatography optimization

Let’s seek powerful and flexible algorithms for computer-assisted high-throughput liquid-chromatography (HPLC).

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Building an engaging and intentional Data Culture and Data Literacy concept_Roche

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Building an engaging and intentional data culture and data literacy concept

Crack the code of data literacy and culture as part of our team. Data and information is the heart of our future and we want to crack the code together with you.

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Developing profiling and segmentation algorithms to generate insights into our diagnostic customers needs _Roche

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Developing profiling and segmentation algorithms to generate insights into our diagnostic customers’ needs

Roche is one of the major players in in-vitro diagnostics, with a plethora of assays, technologies and customers. We are curious to learn from your ideas: how could we profile and segment our customers to better understand their needs?

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Identification of hidden patterns in diagnostics assay data_Roche_33821

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Identification of hidden patterns in diagnostics assay data

We believe that multi-biomarker panels have the potential to enhance the diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of a broad range of diseases effectively. We are curious to learn from your ideas: how could we identify hidden patterns in our wealth of diagnostics assay data?

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Interpretable ML models for automated quality assessment of measurement results_Roche

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Interpretable ML models for automated quality assessment of measurement results

Machine Learning is gaining ground in the development of medical and diagnostic products. However, unfolding its full potential is hampered by lack of interpretability of “black box” models. So let’s build interpretable ML models for automated quality assessment of instrument results.

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Machine-readable Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology_Roche_35875

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Machine-readable clinical practice guidelines in oncology

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is divided into probabilistic and logics-based approaches. Machine-readable clinical practice guidelines form a prime use case for bringing these two approaches together. Only combined AI approaches enable us to understand, explain, and trust the hints and paths provided by the system which ultimately leads to better outcomes for patients.

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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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For students and PhDs

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). Or do you have another great idea which you would like to put into practice with Roche as a partner? Our Greenfield Challenge gives you the opportunity to propose a data-driven healthcare project to us.

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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. In our Greenfield Challenges, you and your students are invited to share collaboration and research ideas to solve crucial healthcare questions through data know-how.

More questions on how to become a university partner?

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