Foundations
As a multinational enterprise and a corporate citizen, Novartis is committed to promoting research, education, and development projects all over the world. As part of this commitment, Novartis has established various initiatives and foundations.
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development (NFSD)
The Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development plans and supports projects designed to strengthen and secure essential healthcare provision for the poor in developing countries. Through its events and publications, it seeks to promote dialogue on development policy between public and private-sector institutions. By means of scientific analyses, it helps to define the nature and limits of corporate social responsibility, particularly for pharmaceutical companies.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Klaus M. Leisinger
Executive Director
Schwarzwaldallee 215
4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 697 7200
Fax: +41 61 697 7104
Novartis Venture Fund
With an initial venture capital of CHF 100 million, the Venture Fund supports new business projects that show exemplary entrepreneurial and innovative spirit in future-oriented areas, especially in the fields of the Life Sciences and new technologies.
Contact:
Reinhard Ambros
Lichstrasse 35
4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 324 7896
Fax: +41 61 324 8679
Novartis US Foundation
The Novartis US Foundation was established in 1997 as part of Novartis Corporation's commitment to social investment in the US. Its primary purpose is to support efforts among communities, businesses, and nonprofit organizations on a range of social, health, and education issues related to healthcare.
Contact:
Brandi Robinson
608 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10020 USA
Tel: +1 212 830 2408
Fax: +1 212 830 2424
Novartis Foundation, formerly the Ciba-Geigy Jubilee Foundation
The Novartis Foundation, formerly the Ciba-Geigy Jubilee Foundation, sponsors and encourages young scientists in Switzerland. Through its support for research projects, it contributes to the preservation and strengthening of Switzerland as a "research laboratory."
Contact:
Novartis Jubilee Foundation
Laura Ciliberto
c/o Novartis International AG - WSJ 200-352
Postfach, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 324 7861
Fax: +41 61 324 5075
www.jubilaeumsstiftung.novartis.com
Novartis Foundation France
The Novartis Foundation France provides persons with difficulties due to age, illness, handicap, or family environment, with personal and social support. By sponsoring innovative projects and setting up networks linking together different types of organizations (such as medical, patient, educational, or sports organizations), the Foundation can provide continuing support and nursing to people with difficulties and help them to find new interests and projects in their life.
Contact:
Annick Roche
14, boulevard Richelieu BP 410
92845 Rueil Malmaison cedex, France
Tel: +33 1 55 47 63 69
Fax: +33 1 55 47 64 21
Novartis Foundation Japan
The mission of the Novartis Foundation Japan is to contribute to the improvement of mankind's welfare, by aiding and promoting creative research and pursuing international exchange among researchers in the field of biological and medical sciences, and related chemistry.
Contact:
4-16-13 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku
Tokyo, 106-0031, Japan
Tel: +81 797 74 2460
Fax: +81 797 74 2409
Novartis Foundation for People and the Environment
Novartis Foundation for People and the Environment supports charitable and scientific activities to improve people's health and to protect the environment.
Contact:
Thomas Preiswerk
Lichstrasse 35
4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 324 2760
Fax: +41 61 324 5075
Novartis Foundation for Medicine and Biology
The Novartis Foundation for Medicine and Biology supports scientific progress in medicine and biology by giving financial aid to Swiss universities, focusing on medically oriented biology or biochemistry research projects.
Contact:
PD Dr. Walter Ällig, secretary
Lichstrasse 35
4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 324 2857
Fax: +41 61 324 2525
Documents:
Administration, Barbara Selz De Rosa
Tel: +41 61 324 85 77
barbara.selz_de_rosa@novartis.com
www.stiftungmedbiol.novartis.com
Novartis Research Foundation
This foundation supports scientific research projects, particularly high-risk projects in areas of new technologies, that are compatible with the long-term interests of Novartis and its partner organizations.
Contact:
Dr. Bernard Äbischer, secretary
Klybeckstrasse 141
4002 Basel, Switzerland
Foundation for Health, Innovation and Society (Spain)
Through this foundation, Novartis Spain promotes the study, investigation, formation, and analysis of health in its ethical, biological, psychological, sociological, and economical dimensions.
Contact:
Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes 764
E-08013 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34 93 306 4612
Fax: +34 93 231 3220
Novartis Foundation for Therapeutic Research
Located in Nuremberg, Germany, the Foundation is an officially recognized charitable organization established by the former Sandoz (now Novartis). The major emphasis lies in supporting medical therapeutic research projects at the university level, including post-graduate training and education.
Contact:
Roonstraße 25
90429 Nuremberg, Germany
Tel: +49 911 2731 2796
Fax: +49 911 2731 2056
Novartis Consumer Health Foundation
The Novartis Consumer Health Foundation sponsors scientists on a sabbatical leave, visiting the Faculty of Medicine or Sciences of the University of Geneva, the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne, the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), the Geneva-Lausanne School of Pharmacy and the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC).
The Foundation also sponsors post-doctoral scientists for bio-medical research projects at these institutions.
Contact:
Dr. Jacob A. Zijlstra
Case Postale 1279, Route de l'Etraz 2
CH-1260 Nyon 1, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 363 3210
Fax: +41 22 363 3837