Family Office Elite Spring_16

SAFRA FOUNDATION MAKES
DONATION TO CLINATEC
Edmond J. Safra Foundation
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation makes a new major
donation to Clinatec The foundation will match each
euro donated to Clinatec, up to €5 million, through the
end of its 8-month fundraising campaign
Mrs. Lily Safra, Chairwoman of the Edmond J. Safra
Foundation, recently announced a major matching grant
donation to Clinatec, the pioneering biomedical research
center. The Foundation will match every donation given
to Clinatec, euro for euro, up to a total of 5 million euros.
The objective is for Clinatec to raise 10 million euros
in its fundraising campaign. The matching grant
challenge is open to all: philanthropists, corporate
sponsors, foundations or individual donors. Proceeds
will be used for medical research projects at Clinatec
on neurodegenerative diseases, motor disabilities and
cancer.
As one of the founding donors of Clinatec, the
Edmond J. Safra Foundation’s 5-million euro donation
demonstrates its continuing commitment to this leading
research center, co-founded by Professor Alim-Louis
Benabid and Jean Therme, Director of Technological
Research at the CEA (the French Alternative Energies
and Atomic Energy Commission).
Clinatec, the Edmond J. Safra Biomedical Research
Center, is a unique research facility utilizing the
latest technologies – micro- and nanotechnologies
and electronics – to treat patients. At the heart of the
research and development center is a hospital service
that includes a surgical unit and laboratories.
The multidisciplinary team comprises more than a
hundred doctors and biologists, as well as scientists from
the CEA, Inserm, the Grenoble Hospital and the Joseph
Fourier University, all under the leadership of Professor
Benabid. Professor Benabid thanked the Foundation and
Mrs. Safra, for their renewed commitment: “Once again,
it is a great honor and demonstration of confidence of
Mrs. Lily Safra, for our past and upcoming research. You
have been part of the Clinatec project from the start.
Thanks to you, Clinatec has become what it is today: a
Mrs. Lily Safra signing the visitors’ book at the
Mémorial de la Shoah (the Holocaust Memorial)
in Paris, with former Minister Simone Veil
in the background. The Edmond J. Safra Education
Institute at the Mémorial de la Shoah
organizes programming for the 30,000 young
people who visit with their school classes each
year, as well as groups of police officers, health
care professionals, army officers, and elected
officials.
unique place where research is entirely devoted to
patients’ well-being.” Mrs. Lily Safra commented:
“Three years have already passed since we had
the privilege to inaugurate Clinatec, the Edmond
J. Safra Biomedical Research Center. In this short
period of time, the Center has reached all of its
objectives, and in a remarkable way. I am delighted
to provide renewed support for Clinatec through
this additional €5 million gift. Professor Benabid
and his colleagues represent hope for millions of
patients and their families. I know my husband
would have been proud to be associated with
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