Roche's $156 R&D hourly rate
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The hourly cost of drug development at Roche, according to the company's promotional video, is 142.8 Swiss francs, or $156.50. One medicine – and Roche doesn't say which one – cost around a billion Swiss francs to develop and took a precise 7,000,874 person hours.