Article: Roche to cut 20% of Boulder force 69 jobs to be lost as drug maker changes strategy.(Business)

Byline: Roger Fillion, Rocky Mountain News

The Boulder unit of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding AG is laying off 69 employees, or almost 20 percent of its work force.

The cuts reflect a change in Roche's overall business strategy.

Roche Colorado spokesman John Tayer said the company is refocusing its efforts on products involving highly active compounds and peptides, used in such drugs as the HIV treatment Fuzeon that Roche makes and sells.

Roche, by contrast, is scaling back work involving small molecule products.

"It's part of Roche's global strategy," Tayer said. "And in that strategy we've been targeted as a ...

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