The registration for Starlink varieties was voluntarily withdrawn by Aventis in October 2000.

In 1999 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize in 2000 for his book Time, Love, Memory about Seymour Benzer.

Hoechst AG () was a German chemicals then life-sciences company that became Aventis Deutschland after its merger with France's Rhône-Poulenc S. A. in 1999.

The formal WTO case challenging the EU's regulatory system was in particular lobbied by U. S. biotechnology giant Monsanto Company and France's Aventis, as well as by big agricultural groups such as the National Corn Growers Association.

It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, and winner of The Aventis Prizes for Science Books in 2000.

He was the creator and lead programmer of the Creatures artificial life simulation, which he discussed in his first book Creation: Life and how to make it, a finalist for the 2001 Aventis Prize for Science Books.

The company was formed as Sanofi-Aventis in 2004 by the merger of Aventis and Sanofi-Synthélabo.

Sanofi-Aventis was formed in 2004 when Sanofi-Synthélabo acquired Aventis.

The French government, desiring what they called a " local solution ", put heavy pressure on Sanofi-Synthélabo to raise its bid for Aventis after it became known that Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, was in the running.

The Aventis Foundation, a German charitable trust, was established in 1996 as the Hoechst Foundation with an endowment of € 50 million.

In 2000, the foundation was renamed the Aventis Foundation.

The 2006 prize was the last one to be sponsored by the Aventis Foundation.

* this book was the 2003 Aventis winner and has a description of the history behind the discovery of this medical condition.

The volume was the 1991 winner of The Aventis Prizes for Science Books, and a 1991 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

The book was nominated for the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books.

In 2006 the book was shortlisted for The Aventis Prizes for Science Books award, eventually losing out to David Bodanis ' Electric Universe.

The book was nominated for the 2003 Aventis Prizes and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

However, in 1995 Aventis ( now Sanofi-Aventis ) stopped producing the drug, whose main market was African countries, because it didn't make a profit.

Engaged in relating poetry and science ,, Padel has written on cell migration for The Scientist, was a judge for the 2005 Aventis Science Prize for the Royal Society has written poems on genetics and zoology, and her book on migration is said to connect micro-level cell migration with macro-level social migration.

The book was nominated for the The Aventis Prizes for Science Books in 2002.

In 1999 the company was merged with the French Rhône-Poulenc S. A. and became Aventis which, after another merger, became Sanofi-Aventis.

Hoechst Schering AgrEvo merged in 1999 with Rhône-Poulenc's agrochemical division to form Aventis CropScience, which was acquired by Bayer AG in 2002 and combined with Bayer's agrochemical division to form Bayer CropScience.

In 2001, Aventis ( now Sanofi-Aventis ) and the WHO formed a five-year partnership, during which more than 320, 000 vials of pentamidine, over 420, 000 vials of melarsoprol, and over 200, 000 bottles of eflornithine were produced by Sanofi-Aventis, to be given to the WHO and distributed by the association Médecins sans Frontières ( also known as Doctors Without Borders ) in countries where the sleeping sickness is endemic.

Hoechst Marion Roussel ( now part of Aventis ) introduced rifapentine in 1999.

HMR subsequently merged in 1999 with Rhône-Poulenc to form Aventis, which then merged in 2004 with Sanofi-Synthélabo to form Sanofi-Aventis.

Joseph Schlessinger's former colleagues at the Weizmann Institute, in particular Michael Sela, claimed to have come up with this concept alongside Schlessinger when they worked together there years earlier, and Yeda challenged the Aventis patent in the United States.

Carrefour is the world's second largest retail group in terms of revenue ; EADS is the world's second largest aerospacial company ; Total is the world's fourth largest private oil company ; Danone is the world's fifth largest food company and the world's largest supplier of mineral water ; Sanofi Aventis is the world's fifth largest pharmaceutical company ; Publicis is the world's third largest advertising company ; PSA is the world's 6th and Europe's 2nd largest automaker ; Renault-Nissan is the world's leading electric car developer among major automakers ; Accor is the leading European hotel group ; Alstom is one of the world's leading conglomerates in power generation and transport ; Pernod Ricard is one of the world's biggest producer of distilled beverages ( owning the former Seagram distilleries ).

In 2004, during a period of plasma oversupply, the company expanded again with the purchase of the German medical company Aventis Behring.

Aventis, the successor of Hoechst, acquired 52 % of the combined company.

Between 2000 and 2006, following the merger of Rhône-Poulenc with Hoechst AG to form Aventis, the prizes were renamed the Aventis Prizes for Science Books.

The James Cook University Singapore, University of Adelaide, Southern Cross University University of New Brunswick, Queen Margaret University, Temple University, The City University of New York, Baruch College, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Aventis School of Management, Curtin University of Technology & University of Wales Institute, Cardiff have established offshore campuses in Singapore to provide local and foreign ( in particular, Asian ) students the opportunity to obtain a Western university education at a fraction of the cost it would take to study in Canada, the UK, the U. S. A. or Australia.

StarLink is a variety of Bt corn patented by Aventis Crop Sciences ( a subdivision of Aventis, acquired by Bayer AG in 2002 ), intended for use in animal feed.

This led to a public relations disaster for Aventis and the biotechnology industry as a whole.

The most recent prescription weight loss medication released is Acomplia ( generic name Rimonabant ), manufactured by Sanofi Aventis.

Rapid-acting insulin analogs such as lispro ( brandname: Humalog, made by Eli Lilly and Company ) and aspart ( brandname: Novolog / Novorapid, made by Novo Nordisk and Apidra made by Sanofi Aventis ) are preferred by many clinicians over older regular insulin for meal coverage and high correction.

Important corporations headquartered at La Défense include Neuf Cegetel, Société Générale, Total, Aventis, Areva, and Arcelor.

In 1998, it won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book.

The Universe in a Nutshell is winner of the Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2002.

His book Mapping the Deep, a narrative of the story of ocean science, won the 2001 Aventis Science Book of the Year award.

Marion Laboratories had revenues of $ 930 million the year before it merged with Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals ( now part of Aventis ) in 1989.

With the presence of some 20 multinationals such as Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Aventis, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, Montreal ranks eighth in North America for the number of jobs in the pharmaceutical sector.

Biogen Idec's principal competitors include Teva, Sanofi Aventis, Serono, Novartis, and Bayer Schering Pharma.