KGI's Corporate Sponsors:"Watch out when you corporatize an educational institution. The traditions of the academy and the public purpose of non-profit education institutions are not the same as the traditions of corporations and what they pursue as their objectives. Who is gonna dominate? . . . It's not a contest." The Keck Graduate Institute prides itself on its close ties with the bioscience industry. KGI has a "corporate roundtable" and "corporate partners," corporations that take an active role in running KGI and setting its curriculum. "Moving at the speed of business," they proclaim. But who exactly are they training their students to do business with? Bayer Corporation, which conducted medical experiments in Nazi concentration camps and didn’t apologize until forced to in a 1994 lawsuit. DuPont, whose toxic factories destroy the environment all over the world. When local citizens resisted such a factory in India, Du Pont responded by calling in the military to fire on unarmed protesters. Genentech, which has a history of stealing university research. and others. . . . [more info coming soon] Allergan, Inc. Amgen, Inc. Axiom Venture Partners Baxter Healthcare Corporation Bayer Corporation Beckman Coulter, Inc. Celera Genomics Corporation COR Therapeutics, Inc. Edwards Life Sciences E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company Genentech, Inc. IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corp. Illumina Inc. Johnson & Johnson/ LifeScan, Inc. Medtronic, Inc. MiniMed, Inc. Motorola, BioChip Systems Nanostream Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. | |
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