This time we have invited Hoffmann La-Roche, one of the three leading research organisations in the health care sector in Switzerland and a major employer in this field. In 2008, Roche employed around 10 000 people in Switzerland - over 12 % of Roche's total workforce worldwide (source Roche).

Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups in the fields of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. As the world’s biggest biotech company and an innovator of products and services for the early detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, the Group contributes on a broad range of fronts to improving people’s health and quality of life. Roche is the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics and drugs for cancer and transplantation.(source Roche) .

«Get Connected» is a newly launched series of events to bring science and business closer together. These events will give you the opportunity to see how science, scientific thinking and scientific approaches are used in the world of business. Furthermore the events will offer you the possibility of building up a network outside the University and therefore enhance your career chances after you have finished studying. «Get Connected» is organized by the Faculty of Science together with Science Alumni UZH, the faculty's Alumni organization. On this platform we shall bring leading and innovative Swiss based companies to you.