Kellogg donates $1.25 mil. for nutrition component of gender-specific physiology database.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
KELLOGG SPONSORSHIP OF PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN's HEALTH will provide funding for the development of a nutrition component of the program's GenCite database. In an Oct. 29 letter to Partnership Director Marianne Legato, MD, Columbia University, the company says it will donate $1.25 mil. to become a "founder" of the program. The company will make an "initial contribution" of $500,000 in 1997, with subsequent installments of $250,000 yearly in 1998, 1999 and 2000. Work on the nutrition project is slated to commence by mid-December.