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Schwab was born to Eugen Wilhelm Schwab and Erika Epprecht[2][3] in Ravensburg. His parents had moved from Switzerland to Germany during the Third Reich in order for his father to assume the role of director at Escher Wyss AG, an industrial company and contractor for then Nazi Germany.
Johann Georg Wyss known as Hansjörg Wyss (born 19 September 1935) is a Swiss billionaire businessman and donor to politically liberal and environmental causes in the United States. He is the founder and the former president and chairman of Synthes Holding AG, a medical device manufacturer. His Wyss Foundation has more than $2 billion in assets. As of March 2022, Wyss had a net worth of US$5.1 billion, according to Forbes.[1] Having donated hundreds of millions of dollars to environmental causes, he has more recently increased his donations to groups promoting progressive causes. He is currently the co-owner of Premier League football club Chelsea.[2]
In 2012, Wyss sold the company for $19.7 billion in cash and stock to Johnson & Johnson.[13] According to Bloomberg, he received 97.4 million shares in Johnson & Johnson and $3.2 billion cash from the deal.[8]
EDIT: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
In 2013, Hansjörg Wyss gave another $125 million to Harvard University, doubling his initial gift. The funding was used to further the Institute’s interdisciplinary research, which includes DNA engineering, cleaning toxins from blood, vibrating insoles to help older adults maintain balance, and a melanoma cancer vaccine.
In 2019, Hansjörg Wyss donated a third gift of $131 million to the Wyss Institute. In 2020, the Wyss Institute and Northpond Ventures, a Maryland-based venture capital firm, created the Laboratory for Bioengineering Research and Innovation at the Wyss Institute. The $12 million funding supports research related to RNA therapies, genome engineering, and new drug delivery methods.
Within its first ten years, the Institute also spun out 29 startup companies to commercialize Wyss Institute developments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyss_Institute_for_Biologically_Inspired_Engineering#Response_to_COVID
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyss_Center_for_Bio_and_Neuroengineering
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1644751320983785477
Schwab was born to Eugen Wilhelm Schwab and Erika Epprecht[2][3] in Ravensburg. His parents had moved from Switzerland to Germany during the Third Reich in order for his father to assume the role of director at Escher Wyss AG, an industrial company and contractor for then Nazi Germany.
Johann Georg Wyss known as Hansjörg Wyss (born 19 September 1935) is a Swiss billionaire businessman and donor to politically liberal and environmental causes in the United States. He is the founder and the former president and chairman of Synthes Holding AG, a medical device manufacturer. His Wyss Foundation has more than $2 billion in assets. As of March 2022, Wyss had a net worth of US$5.1 billion, according to Forbes.[1] Having donated hundreds of millions of dollars to environmental causes, he has more recently increased his donations to groups promoting progressive causes. He is currently the co-owner of Premier League football club Chelsea.[2]
In 2012, Wyss sold the company for $19.7 billion in cash and stock to Johnson & Johnson.[13] According to Bloomberg, he received 97.4 million shares in Johnson & Johnson and $3.2 billion cash from the deal.[8]
EDIT: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
In 2013, Hansjörg Wyss gave another $125 million to Harvard University, doubling his initial gift. The funding was used to further the Institute’s interdisciplinary research, which includes DNA engineering, cleaning toxins from blood, vibrating insoles to help older adults maintain balance, and a melanoma cancer vaccine.
In 2019, Hansjörg Wyss donated a third gift of $131 million to the Wyss Institute. In 2020, the Wyss Institute and Northpond Ventures, a Maryland-based venture capital firm, created the Laboratory for Bioengineering Research and Innovation at the Wyss Institute. The $12 million funding supports research related to RNA therapies, genome engineering, and new drug delivery methods.
Within its first ten years, the Institute also spun out 29 startup companies to commercialize Wyss Institute developments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyss_Institute_for_Biologically_Inspired_Engineering#Response_to_COVID
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyss_Center_for_Bio_and_Neuroengineering
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1644751320983785477
Schwab was born to Eugen Wilhelm Schwab and Erika Epprecht[2][3] in Ravensburg. His parents had moved from Switzerland to Germany during the Third Reich in order for his father to assume the role of director at Escher Wyss AG, an industrial company and contractor for then Nazi Germany.
Johann Georg Wyss known as Hansjörg Wyss (born 19 September 1935) is a Swiss billionaire businessman and donor to politically liberal and environmental causes in the United States. He is the founder and the former president and chairman of Synthes Holding AG, a medical device manufacturer. His Wyss Foundation has more than $2 billion in assets. As of March 2022, Wyss had a net worth of US$5.1 billion, according to Forbes.[1] Having donated hundreds of millions of dollars to environmental causes, he has more recently increased his donations to groups promoting progressive causes. He is currently the co-owner of Premier League football club Chelsea.[2]
In 2012, Wyss sold the company for $19.7 billion in cash and stock to Johnson & Johnson.[13] According to Bloomberg, he received 97.4 million shares in Johnson & Johnson and $3.2 billion cash from the deal.[8]