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Aventis was a pharmaceutical and lab assay testing company. It was formed in 1999 when Rhône-Poulenc
Rhône-Poulenc

Rh?ne-Poulenc was a French chemical and pharmaceutical company....
 S.A. merged with Hoechst AG
Hoechst AG

Hoechst AG was a Germany chemicals then life-sciences company that became Aventis after its merger with Rh?ne-Poulenc S.A. in 1999, and now Sanofi-Aventis after 2004....
. The merged company was based in Strasbourg
Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace Regions of France in northeastern France. With 702,412 inhabitants in 2007, its metropolitan area is the Aire urbaine....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. With its headquarters in Strasbourg, France, Aventis was the product of the first transnational merger to combine large rival companies from France and Germany. It became part of the French pharmaceutical conglomerate Sanofi-Aventis in 2004. The name Aventis is likely to be derive from the Romas Goddness Minerva
Minerva

Minerva was the Roman mythology name of Greek goddess Athena. She was considered to be the virgin goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving,crafts, and the inventor of music....
 who was considered to be the virgin goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom and music.






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Aventis was a pharmaceutical and lab assay testing company. It was formed in 1999 when Rhône-Poulenc
Rhône-Poulenc

Rh?ne-Poulenc was a French chemical and pharmaceutical company....
 S.A. merged with Hoechst AG
Hoechst AG

Hoechst AG was a Germany chemicals then life-sciences company that became Aventis after its merger with Rh?ne-Poulenc S.A. in 1999, and now Sanofi-Aventis after 2004....
. The merged company was based in Strasbourg
Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace Regions of France in northeastern France. With 702,412 inhabitants in 2007, its metropolitan area is the Aire urbaine....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. With its headquarters in Strasbourg, France, Aventis was the product of the first transnational merger to combine large rival companies from France and Germany. It became part of the French pharmaceutical conglomerate Sanofi-Aventis in 2004. The name Aventis is likely to be derive from the Romas Goddness Minerva
Minerva

Minerva was the Roman mythology name of Greek goddess Athena. She was considered to be the virgin goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving,crafts, and the inventor of music....
 who was considered to be the virgin goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom and music.

Sanofi-Aventis
Sanofi-Aventis

Sanofi-Aventis , headquartered in Paris, France, is a multinational pharmaceutical company. The company is the world's fourth largest List of pharmaceutical companies....
 was formed in 2004 when Sanofi-Synthélabo
Sanofi-Synthélabo

Sanofi-Synth?labo was a Paris-based pharmaceutical company formed in 1999, when Sanofi merged with Synth?labo. Sanofi-Aventis was formed in 2004 when Sanofi-Synth?labo merged with Aventis....
 purchased Aventis. In 2008 alone, Sanofi-Aventis invested over 4.6 billion euros in Research and Development of new vaccines. Today, Sanofi-aventis is also the number 1 pharmacutical company in Europe, Brazil, Russia, India, China and Mexico with over 100,000 empolyees across the world.

Aventis Prizes

The Aventis Prizes for Science Books
The Aventis Prizes for Science Books

The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books is an annual award for the previous year's best general science writing and best science writing for children....
, which celebrate the best in popular science writing for adults and children, have grown to be one of the world's most prestigious non-fiction literary prizes.

The Aventis Prizes are managed by the Royal Society
Royal Society

The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, or even the Royal, is a learned society for science that was founded in 1660 and is considered by most to be the oldest such society still in existence....
, the UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 national academy of science, and the Aventis Foundation, a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 charitable trust established in 1996 with the name Hoechst Foundation with an endowment
Financial endowment

A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, usually with the stipulation that it be invested, and the :wikt:principal remain intact in perpetuity or for a defined time period....
 of €50 million. In 2000 the foundation was renamed the Aventis Foundation subsequent to the 1999 merger of Hoechst and Rhône-Poulenc.

See also

  • Plant Genetic Systems
    Plant Genetic Systems

    Plant Genetic Systems , since 2002 part of Bayer CropScience, is a Biotechnology company located in Ghent, Belgium. The focus of its activities is the genetic engineering of plants....
  • Sanofi-Aventis
    Sanofi-Aventis

    Sanofi-Aventis , headquartered in Paris, France, is a multinational pharmaceutical company. The company is the world's fourth largest List of pharmaceutical companies....


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