THE DRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES INITIATIVE CELEBRATES 15 YEARS OF BRINGING THE BEST SCIENCE TO THE WORLD'S MOST NEGLECTED PATIENTS

PRESENTED BY

SANOFI_Logo_H_2011_QuadriLo.jpg
 
 

JOIN US

 Wednesday, October 24, 2018

The Bowery Hotel, 335 Bowery, New York City

Cocktail Attire

 
 

6:00pm - 7:00pm                                             Cocktail Reception

7:00pm - 8:30pm                                                   Awards Dinner

8:30pm - 11:00pm                                 After Party with DJ Logic

 

Award design by Congolese sculptor Alfred Liyolo

EMCEE

 

SPECIAL GUESTS

MUSICAL GUESTS

 

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

Sponsor Logos.png

GALA CO-CHAIRS

Kathleen Chalfant

Dr. Darin Portnoy

 

HONORARY

COMMITTEE

Javier Bardem

Kathleen Chalfant

Dr. Maria Freire

Bill T. Jones

Mia Maestro

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee

Dr. Vivek H. Murthy

Dr. Claire Pomeroy

Sharon Stone

Jonathan Tucker

Thomas Viola

Alek Wek

STEERING

COMMITTEE

Meena Ahamed 

Cynara Charles-Pierre

Lorna Chiu

Unik Ernest

Nicholas Haft

Dr. Unni Karunakara

Myoto Liyolo

Daniella Pittorino

John Plum

Lisa Pongrass

Kris Torgeson

BENEFIT

COMMITTEE

Meena & Liaquat Ahamed

David & Katherine Bradley

Kathleen & Henry Chalfant

Mary & Robert Haft

Yusuf and Farida Hamied Foundation

Robert & Liz Pittorino

Dr. Darin Portnoy and Glenda Hersh

Alan Schwartz and Nancy Seaman

Dr. Bennett Shapiro & Fredericka Foster

Lois & Arthur Stainman

 The Tully Family

 
 

 

Awards by: Ateliers Liyolo

Musical program supported by: Anne Keeler, Stephanie Oster and Dylan Yulles/Capital Group

Signage provided by: Showman Fabricators

 
Screen Shot 2018-10-18 at 3.33.25 PM.png
left col.png

DNDi brings the best science to the most neglected. We research and develop safe, effective, and affordable treatments for diseases plaguing many of the world’s poorest and most neglected communities. We don’t do it for profit. We do it because we believe all patients have the right to the best that science has to offer, no matter where they live.

 

- Dr. Bernard Pécoul, Founding Executive Director

 
 
right col.png

DNDi was founded in 2003 by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Institut Pasteur, the Kenya Medical Research Institute, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil, the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Malaysian Ministry of Health, and the World Health Organization's Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. 

In our 15-year history, DNDi has developed seven treatments for five deadly diseases - malaria, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, and pediatric HIV.

DNDi has received numerous awards, including the Rockefeller Foundation's 2013 Next Century Innovators Award, the 2013 Carlos Slim Health Award for Outstanding Institution, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's 2014 Innovative Fund Award, and the Drug Information Association's 2016 President's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Global Health.