PENZBERG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and the Department of Health of Junta de Andalucía, Spain have signed an agreement for a cooperation in the Medical Genome Project (MGP), a research project created to analyse the genomes of people with rare diseases and identify the defective gene or genes causing the disease and its behaviour. Roche will contribute four million Euros to the MGP; in exchange, Roche reserves the right of first refusal over any possible license regarding discoveries made within the scope of the project.
