On April 9, Aventis in collaboration with Zicklin School of Business hosted the Annual Public Lecture Series-Beyond The Financial Crisis: Ethics & Professional Responsibilities by Professor Larry Zicklin who endowed the Wharton's Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research and the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity (CCI) at Baruch College.
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Aventis School of Management is listed in the TOP MBA Career Guide 2010 from peer surveys by Quacquarelli Symonds.
Buserelin acetate is marketed by Sanofi-Aventis under the brand name Suprefact and a generic form of Buserelin is now produced by CinnaGen under the brand name CinnaFact.
Since then Lewent has also been responsible for Merck's collaboration with Johnson & Johnson in a consumer pharmaceuticals joint venture, for the setting up of the animal health company Merial (a joint venture with the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis), and for Merck's ongoing relationships with AstraZeneca and DuPont.
Ombrabulin is an experimental drug candidate discovered by Ajinomoto and under development by Sanofi-Aventis.
The Garst Seed Company (part of the Advanta group) was licensed by Aventis to produce and sell StarLink seed in the US.
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In 2003, farmers who did not plant StarLink who had suffered economic losses due to depressed corn prices following the StarLink recalls settled a class-action lawsuit against Aventis and Advanta for $100 million.
In 2002, West Farm (on the Little Bytham road) had trials for GM Rapeseed planted by Aventis.
Z drugs emerged in the last years of the 1980s and early 1990s, with zopiclone (Imovane) approved by the NHS as early as 1989, quickly followed by Sanofi and zolpidem (Ambien).