Pamela Mars-Wright becomes Honorary Nobel Senate member

30 June 2008 - Germany

Mars is the first-ever food company invited to participate as a partner in the Lindau foundation, and Pamela Mars-Wright has accepted the invitation to join the Honorary Senate of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in recognition of the company's growing scientific reputation in recent years

On 29 June, at the organization’s 58th annual Laureates Meeting in Lindau on the banks of Lake Constance in Germany, Pamela Mars-Wright was admitted to the Honorary Senate in acknowledgement of the long term commitment Mars has made to investing in world-leading science. She said: “Our commitment to science has been, and will continue to be, international in scope and in support of the scientific and economic disciplines represented by the Lindau organization and the Nobel Laureate community.”

As an Honorary Senate member, Pamela Mars-Wright will, on behalf of the company, continue to build relationships with many of the world’s most eminent scholars and some of the brightest young minds in international research.

The Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting is an annual event which has been bringing Nobel Prize winners and promising young scientists and researchers together each year since 1951. This unique platform is supported by partnerships with a select group of science-driven businesses. By fostering the interaction between the world’s best scientists, young scientific talents and science-driven businesses, the annual meeting creates the opportunity for interactions that will inspire the breakthroughs of the next generation of great scientists.

With many scientific achievements, Mars continues to lead the world in cocoa and chocolate science, producing pioneering results describing the health benefits of cocoa flavanols and the development of improved cocoa varieties through cutting edge understanding of cocoa genetics. At the same time, Mars activities in the field of petcare research carried out in the Waltham® Centre for Pet Nutrition has also received widespread international acclaim.