Roche Sees Biomarker-Guided Discovery As Key To Unlocking Tumor Microenvironment

For Roche, PD-L1 is just the first target to emerge from its big investment in understanding the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. The company’s research operations use biomarkers to guide discovery and increasingly important early development and combination strategies – potentially a more fruitful use of biomarker strategies than parallel development of companion diagnostics and therapeutics.