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Eli Lilly and Company – Partnership with Purdue Yields Progress Year after Year
May 12, 2008
Eli Lilly and Company continues to show its dedication to academia through its support of student achievement initiatives and research opportunities at Purdue University. For the 2006-2007 academic year, Eli Lilly and Company generously provided funding of over $480,000 toward programs involving diversity recruitment and retention efforts, diversity enhancement opportunities, K-12 community outreach, scholarships, student traveling funds, performing arts shows, and lecture series. Donations made by Lilly’s employees were matched at a rate of one-to-one, for an additional gift contribution of nearly $84,000. Further, Lilly is a member of a consortium of companies that sponsors the Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems, with a goal of advancing pharmaceutical technology and manufacturing throughout the world.
In addition to the traditional forms of support discussed above, Lilly and Purdue have partnered in a novel relationship aimed at combating multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) around the world. Lilly donated the intellectual property as well as equipment and supplies for an antibiotic known as Seromycin® to the Chao Center, part of the Purdue Research Foundation. Lilly also provided associated analytical, regulatory, quality and technical support. The Chao Center will make the prescription drug available to pharmaceutical wholesalers in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands for distribution to pharmacies. The Purdue partnership is part of a $135 million effort by Lilly to combat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis around the world. In addition to contributing to the fight against MDR-TB, the agreement gives Purdue pharmaceutical sciences students the opportunity to work at the Chao Center and learn how to produce drugs under the strict guidelines set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. When they graduate, they then have the advanced skills that are needed for the pharmaceutical sector, which is a focus area for the Indiana economy.
Philanthropy and community service are long-standing traditions at Eli Lilly and Company. For more than a century, Lilly has been building upon the founding Lilly family’s commitment to the philosophy of good corporate citizenship and in 1968 established the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, Inc., to award cash grants to support philanthropic initiatives that improve patient outcomes, enhance the quality of life in communities in which Lilly has a presence, and improve education and educational opportunities. In each of these areas, the Lilly Foundation places special emphasis on programs that address diversity.
Purdue University is proud to partner with Lilly in all of the areas mentioned above and those to come in the future. We offer sincere thanks to Eli Lilly and Company for their confidence in and support of our programs, and we are grateful for the opportunity to present opportunities to today’s students, which will pave the way for future generations of students to succeed.
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