About Healthcare Xplorers

Healthcare Xplorers is an open innovation platform for academic collaboration in the data space. The focus is on real challenges from Roche business areas where data plays a crucial role, and where new perspectives from academia complement our industry perspective.

About
Healthcare Xplorers

Healthcare Xplorers is an open innovation platform for academic collaboration in the data space. The focus is on real challenges from Roche business areas where data plays a crucial role, and where new perspectives from academia complement our industry perspective.

What’s in it for your university

Insights

Your students gain valuable healthcare industry perspectives on relevant research questions.

Collaboration

Get to work with industry assets that can catalyze new relevant healthcare questions.

Impact

Challenges have the potential to lead to co-publications.

What’s in it for your university

Insights

Your students gain valuable healthcare industry perspectives on relevant research questions.

Collaboration

Get to work with industry assets that can catalyze new relevant healthcare questions.

Impact

Challenges have the potential to lead to co-publications.

Who we look for

We are looking for strategic partnerships and collaborations with universities offering study programs and doing reasearch in the following areas:

Who we

look for

We are looking for strategic partnerships and collaborations with universities offering study programs and doing reasearch in the following areas:

   business informatics

   bioinformatics

   and many more

   business mathematics

   physics

   informatics

   engineering

  • business informatics
  • business mathematics
  • informatics
  • bioinformatics
  • physics
  • engineering
  • and many more

How it works

The set-up of Healthcare Xplorers is inspired by the accelerator concept from the startup world, catalyzing the co-development of solutions through a time-boxed batch approach. 

How it works

The set-up of Healthcare Xplorers is inspired by the accelerator concept from the startup world, catalyzing the co-development of solutions through a time-boxed batch approach. 

If you already have a research team working in the field of one of our challenges, please get directly in touch with us to discuss a potential cooperation.

Select

Select relevant challenge(s).

current challenges

— Submit

Your students will have 4 weeks time to solve the selected challenge(s) and submit their ideas on 3-5 PPT slides.

— Present

The best participants will be invited to our virtual Xplorers Camp to present their ideas to our Roche mentors.

— Cooperate

Wether it will be an internship for your students or a reaseach cooperation agreement with your university – basically everything is possible.

Select

Select relevant challenge(s).

current challenges

— Submit

Your students will have 4 weeks time to solve the selected challenge(s) and submit their ideas on 3-5 PPT slides.

— Present

The best participants will be invited to our virtual Xplorers Camp to present their ideas to our Roche mentors.

— Cooperate

Wether it will be an internship for your students or a reaseach cooperation agreement with your university – basically everything is possible.

New partnership:
TUM.ai Makeathon

New partnership:
TUM.ai Makeathon

We strongly believe in the power of open innovation and are happy to announce our brand-new partnership with TUM.ai, Germany‘s leading AI student initiative based in Munich.

TUM.ai made itself a name for its Makeathon: a virtual 48-hours challenge for students and young professionals with the goal to develop a working AI solution for a real-world business case. Innovators of tomorrow work together in interdisciplinary teams on prototypes for challenges in medtech, education and environment.

The last TUM.ai Makeathon took place from 22 to 24 April 2022. makeathon.tum-ai.com/

— Want to cooperate with us?

Nadja Schaefer

Your contact:

Nadja Schaefer

Global Manager Data Literacy and Data Culture, Roche Diagnostics GmbH

— Want to cooperate with us?

Nadja Schaefer

Your contact:

Nadja Schaefer

Head Data Mindset and Environment, Roche Diagnostics GmbH