History
The Institute was founded by Dr. Anthony Cerami, PhD and his daughter Dr. Carla Cerami, M.D.,Ph.D. Dr. Anthony Cerami is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He is an inventor on 131 U.S. patents, and the author of over 420 published scientific papers.
The Kenneth S. Warren Institute was originally incorporated in accordance with the New York State Not-for-Profit laws and originally chartered in 1980, under the name of The Drug and Vaccine Development Corporation (DVDC). In response to a U.S. mandate on the industrial sector to contribute more directly to improving public health in emerging nations, the DVDC espoused to pay particular attention to the health problems affecting populations in the developing world, and it sought to promote working the fields of parasitology and tropical medicine. The Kenneth Warren Prize is awarded every year by the Cochrane Organization to a scientist who publishes a Cochrane Review about a health issue in developing countries.
Although the federal impetus waned with subsequent presidential administrations and corporate sponsorship virtually disappeared, the organization’s membership maintained its objectives throughout the years to establish facilities to further its research goals. Its mission is to facilitate the discovery and development of new therapeutics to alleviate the health problems of the world’s poorest people.
In 2001, state-of-the-art facilities were established at the Kitchawan Preserve, a 15-acre (61,000 m2) campus located in Westchester County, New York. The facilities were named to commemorate the lifelong work of one of the founders of the DVDC. Kenneth S. Warren was an esteemed physician and world-renowned leader in the field of tropical medicine.
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