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October 5th, 2011

BlogTV: Encounters for change with Mao Chan and Etoile de Martin

L’Etoile de Martin is a French association created in 2006 by young Martin’s parents. One year long, the little boy fought valiantly against a malignant brain tumour before “reaching the stars”. Laurent and Servanne, his parents, wished to honour his memory and share their experience with other parents who have to face the same disease.
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Mao Chan

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July 13th, 2011

Teaming up with the Institut Pasteur to fight Dengue fever

For the past two years, BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Hong Kong has donated its end-of-year gifts budget to support research on the dengue virus at the HKU-Pasteur Research Centre. [...]

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Joyce Leung

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March 28th, 2011

BlogTV: Fighting Rare Diseases

Have you ever heard of Choroideremia?
Also known as CHM, it’s a rare hereditary disorder that causes progressive loss of vision, due to the degeneration of the choroid and the retina.
As rare disease, Choroideremia currently has no treatment, though research is being conducted and progress is being made. Marie-Catherine, whose young son Victorien has been diagnosed [...]

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Lily Dionne

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March 18th, 2011

CIB renews its support for medical research

As a part of its corporate philanthropy policy piloted by the BNP Paribas Foundation, CIB (Corporate & Investment Banking) has chosen to continue its partnership with the Institut Pasteur for the third year running.
The entity’s support comes in the form of financial aid to medical research teams that are a part of the Institut [...]

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Lily Dionne

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November 23rd, 2010

Bone Health: A Question of Prevention

On Tuesday 16 November, a conference was presented by Professor René Rizzoli, head doctor at the department for bone disease at Geneva University Hospitals (HUG – Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève) and a professor at the faculty for medicine in Geneva, was on the theme, “Bone health: a matter of prevention”
More than 150 employees from the [...]

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Dagmar Nardacchione-Widmer

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November 8th, 2010

BlogTV: “Pasteurdon” 2010

Each year, the Pasteur Institute for medical research opens its doors to the public for the “Pasteurdon” fundraising campaign. On October 23rd and 24th across France, the Institute’s museum, laboratories, and a variety of scientific workshops and conferences were open to the public. The BlogTV team was there to find out what the “Pasteur spirit” [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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September 16th, 2010

30km for Women’s Cancers

In late August, 2,250 people got together in Montreal, Quebec with a common mission: to raise awareness about women’s cancers. Stacey Jean-Louis, an employee at BNP Paribas (Canada), took part in the event, walking no less than 30 kilometres in the name of medical research. Her commitment in her own words…
What is this walk for?
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Progress in breast cancer research in Australia

For over 45 years the The Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia has been pioneering study into some of the most widespread diseases affecting our community. It is a world leader in biomedical research and its scientists have achieved significant breakthroughs in understanding and treating diseases such as cancer, diabetes and obesity, Alzheimer’s and [...]

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Sarah Claughton

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May 26th, 2010

PremUp exhibition at the Senate

As part of the “coup de pouce” (helping hand) programme supporting employee projects, Lionel Bordarier, a senior banker at Corporate and Investment Banking, has received the support of the BNP Paribas Foundation for his efforts with the PremUp association, for which he volunteers.
An innovative foundation initiated by the government
The creation of PremUp, a foundation for [...]

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