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Innovation Through Partnerships: Science
The development of the biotech sector requires close cooperation between business and science. Enhancement brings public-private partnership, which is not only a model, but also an incentive to support the development of science and medicine around the world and in Poland. In the biotechnology industry, a scientist cannot function without a business partner, and a business partner cannot function without a scientist. This relation is beneficial to both parties, but also crucial to the development of modern medicines.
What Roche brings to Poland is not only a financial contribution and multi-billion investments, but also know-how, international experience, solid research and development competences. The highly specialized jobs created in Poland enable to gain unique experience in all areas of biopharmaceutical activity, from R&D, clinical trials, to data management and the search for innovative technologies and solutions.
Cooperation with leading academic centres creates conditions for building interdisciplinary scientific teams and gives access to professional practice in various fields of science. The public-private partnerships enable the implementation of joint projects, where specialists from Roche Polska, together with academic scientists – can look for innovative solutions and appropriate resources supporting the sustainable development of healthcare.
Cooperation with Medical University of Lodz and University of Warsaw
Roche Polska has been a partner of the University of Warsaw for over 7 years. Cooperation with the Entrepreneurship Incubator of the University of Warsaw, succeeded in developed of BioTech Leaders Academy – initiated to development of the competences of students and graduates of the University of Warsaw and the Medical University of Warsaw in biotechnology, pharmacy, medicine and bioinformatics. The program also aims to identify and support initiatives with the greatest potential for further development.
As part of cooperation with the Medical University of Lodz, we have launched, among others: implementation doctorate program. The first edition of the program in which Roche Polska took part, succeeded with the obtained a doctorate in medical sciences.
Medical University of Karol Marcinkowski in Poznań
As a part of the partnership with the Medical University of Poznań, postgraduate studies Data Science in Medicine were opened. These are three-semester studies, which didactical program includes: deep learning, image processing, natural language processing and machine learning. Classes are based on project work using specialized tools and applications with access to medical databases.
Warsaw Health Innovation Hub
Since 2021, Roche Polska has been a partner of the Warsaw Health Innovation Hub a platform for further investments in innovations and developing recommendations to improve the healthcare system. WHIH is a unique platform for cooperation between economic, public and scientific entities in Central Europe, which aims at strengthening Poland’s role as a place for creating medical and biotechnological innovations and increasing the resilience and stability of the healthcare system. This is the first step to creating the Polish Medical Valley based on the strong academic base that Poland has.
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