Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation makes huge investment in cutting-edge research at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation is promoting cutting-edge research at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz: over a ten-year period, the Foundation is to invest a total of EUR 100 M to set up and run an international centre of excellence for life sciences (working title). Rhineland-Palatinate will thus receive one of the largest private donations ever in a scientific facility at a University. While the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation will guarantee the general operation of the centre of excellence for a decade, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate will provide around EUR 30 M to finance a new building to house state-of-the-art research facilities with a net internal …