It can take more than 15 years to develop a medicine—and to raise an aspiring scientist. Today’s students are the researchers, physicians and healthcare innovators of tomorrow. But all too often, students face challenges in their education and career journeys.

That’s why we support all stages of the education continuum, from Kindergarten to Careers, so students are supported and empowered to pursue and thrive in careers in science and medicine.

We do this through deep partnerships, mentoring, training, resources, and grants that:

• Build excitement about science and scale industry-aligned career exploration with elementary, middle and high school students;

• Provide wrap-around and financial support to students in undergraduate and graduate studies; and

• Invest in promising models to recruit, retain and advance the next generation of post-docs

We believe that to improve health access and outcomes for all patients, we must invest at multiple levels -both “upstream,” on prevention, and “downstream,” on issues related to the healthcare talent pipeline, clinical research and care delivery environments and patient and community support. At Genentech, we have done this by:

• Incubating transformational solutions to optimize health outcomes, with a focus on:
• Advancing inclusive research by supporting new approaches to strengthen patient and community voice, power, and engagement in research and care.
• Promoting inclusive care delivery by building accountability, capacity, and community partnerships
• Investing in promising models to recruit, retain, and advance the next generation of healthcare and scientific talent, and healthcare education and training to mitigate bias, build empathy, and improve the patient experience.
• Increasing patient access to information and high-quality care, including early diagnosis, comprehensive education, support services, medicine, and financial assistance.

We’re proud members of the communities where we live and work, and we believe we can have the greatest impact by focusing our efforts at the local level—through our charitable giving and by empowering employees to volunteer their time and talent.

Our employees are passionate about giving back, and share their skills and expertise through local partnerships with schools and community-based organizations across five of our U.S. sites (South San Francisco and Oceanside, CA; Louisville, KY and Hillsboro and Portland, OR). They also amplify their giving through our employee donation and volunteer matching programs.