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'The Divine Order': Tribeca Review

Edit Screen Daily 22 Apr 2017
Marie Leuenberger plays a housewife turned activist protesting her right to vote in 1970s Switzerland. Dir/scr. Petra Volpe. Switzerland. 2017. 96 min. Switzerland is perhaps an unexpected presence on the women’s suffrage roster of shame. Polite and picturesque, it’s hardly the first place that comes to mind as a hotbed for repressive gender politics ... Production company. Zodiac Pictures International. International sales ... Hansjörg Weissbrich ... ....

African Parks gets $65M for conservation in Rwanda and Malawi

Edit Mongabay 05 Mar 2017
“The Wyss Foundation is partnering with African Parks to safeguard more large wild landscapes in Africa from poaching and destruction,” said Hansjörg Wyss, Founder and Chairman of The Wyss Foundation, said in a press release ... That lion population has since doubled....

Primate research is crucial if we are to find cures for diseases like Parkinson's

Edit The Guardian 13 Sep 2016
To effectively combat the scourge of neurodegenerative and other crippling diseases, we require the careful and considered use of nonhuman primates. Nonhuman primates have long played a key role in life-changing medical advances. A recent white paper by nine scientific societies in the US produced a list of 50 medical advances from the last 50 years made possible through studies on nonhuman primates ... rer. nat ... Hansjörg Scherberger, Dr ... ....

Non-profit to donate 282 acres for Saguaro National Park

Edit The Oklahoman 25 Aug 2016
It was purchased by Hansjörg Wyss (Hans-yorg Whees), a philanthropist, in 2004 and donated to The Trust for Public Land a decade later with the intention ......

Turkey misses deadline for visa-free EU travel as ambassador to withdraw

Edit The Guardian 15 Jun 2016
The deal was based on conditions relating to border security and fundamental rights which Turkey did not meet in time ... But this was always conditional on Turkey meeting 72 EU conditions on border security and fundamental rights ... Hansjörg Haber will leave his post as the EU ambassador to Turkey in August, after making provocative comments about the migration deal that infuriated the Turkish government ... ....

Turkey Migrant Deal Stalled as Top EU Ambassador Quits Over Row

Edit Sputnik 15 Jun 2016
The EU ambassador to Turkey, Hansjörg Haber has resigned less than a month after being slammed by the Turkish Government for derogatory remarks about the Ankara leadership and failure to win concessions over reforms to the country's anti-terror laws ... ....

Charla Nash’s Body Rejecting Face Transplant

Edit Inquisitr 05 May 2016
Charla Nash, the chimp attack victim who received a face transplant five years ago, is experiencing rejection issues from the procedure. Her body hasn’t completely accepted certain aspects of the surgery ... Dr ... Dr ... Dr ... Rodriguez, chair of the Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery at NYU Langone, told The New York Post that most likely Nash’s doctors will adjust her medication as a means of reversing the rejection....

Universities drive ahead with corporate tie-ups

Edit Swissinfo 28 Apr 2016
Last December, billionaire Hansjörg Wyss was applauded for gifting two universities CHF120 million ($123 million) to turn medical research into cures ... In December, Swiss Education and Research Minister Johann ... ....

Winners for the California Green Medal Sustainable Winegrowing Leadership Awards

Edit The Examiner 23 Apr 2016
On April 20 the California Green Medal ... Awardees of the four 2016 Green Medals are. ... The winner is Halter Ranch Vineyard. The environmental stewardship commitment by Halter Ranch Vineyard owner Hansjörg Wyss is demonstrated by the decision to preserve 1,700 acres of the Halter Ranch property with 18% planted to vineyards that work in harmony with the undeveloped acres to provide habitat, wildlife corridors and biodiversity ... They include....

Bromium Secures $40m Investment

Edit Redherring 28 Mar 2016
Bromium, a provider of endpoint protection using virtualization, has secured $40 million of investment. The financing round was led by existing investors and included new backer Silver Lake Waterman ... Existing investors Hansjörg Wyss, NanoDimension and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center all participated, as did new backers OS Fund; Atel Ventures; ALS Finding a Cure, a program of the Leandro P ... ....

Almost 2 of every 100 on the global list is Swiss

Edit Swissinfo 02 Mar 2016
That is down from 1,826 billionaires who were collectively worth $7.05 trillion a year earlier ... Next is Hansjörg Wyss, who made part of his fortune selling artificial joint maker Synthes for over $21 billion ... ....

Billionaire’s cash brings medical research to patients

Edit Swissinfo 07 Dec 2015
Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, who funded the Wyss Translational Center, was in Zurich to see it unveiled ... It already has four promising projects in progress that hope to create ... ....
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