Fondation Bertarelli

The Bertarelli Foundation was founded in 1998 by Maria Iris, Dona and Ernesto Bertarelli in memory of Fabio Bertarelli, who in the 1970s brought Serono, his family’s business, to Switzerland and helped lead the development of the life science sector in the Lake Geneva region. For the first ten years the Foundation worked primarily to establish and develop healthcare projects which built upon the legacy of The Serono Foundation. It focused on the promotion of knowledge sharing amongst clinicians and ethicists in issues concerning reproductive health and the treatment of infertility, which reflected the advances made in this field by Serono.