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Aventis was a pharmaceutical and lab assay testing company. It was Rhone-Poulenc S.A. merged with Hoechst AG in 1999. It was based in Strasbourg, France. In 2004, when Sanofi-Aventis was formed and when Sanofi-Synthelabo purchased Aventis. I had also a foundation that we called “ The Aventis Foundation”. It is a charitable foundation headquartered in Frankfurt am Main which serves to promote music, theater, art, literature, projects in the social and political arena with a focus on health care, as well as science, research, and higher education. It was established in 1996 as the Hoechst Foundation with an endowment of 50 million Euro. But it was renamed as the Aventis Foundation in 2000. |
