May 18, 2010
Cognigen Supports Institut Pasteur
Cognigen Corporation contributed to the 2010 Pasteur Foundation Gala, a fundraising event for the Institut Pasteur. The Gala was held May 17, 2010, in New York City.
At the Gala, Frank Riboud, chairman and CEO of Danone, and Professor Muhammad Yunus, managing director of Grameen Bank, were honored with the Pasteur Foundation 2010 Award. Riboud and Yunus have formed a joint venture, Grameen Danone Foods, Ltd., that aims to provide a reliable source of nutritious dairy products in rural Bangladesh. The Pasteur Foundation Award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated an outstanding devotion to improving public health worldwide.
The Pasteur Foundation works to raise funds for research, to introduce the research conducted at the Institut Pasteur in Paris to the American public, and to develop exchanges between Pasteurian and U.S. scientists. Institut Pasteur’s 3 principal vocations are biological research (focused historically on infectious diseases but extending today to include allergies, genetic diseases, and cancer), the development of public health applications arising from this research, and teaching and training programs.
