Following the way open by Professor Jerome Lejeune (1926-1994) and his colleagues, and thanks to our private donators, the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation continues to help the research.
to try to allow people to receive the fullness of life to which they are entitled, what we call the freedom of mind. This is a deal for us, for our successors and their successors, summarized in St Irenée’ sentence, « Gloria Dei est homo vivans« .
(Jérôme Lejeune, 1983, Académie des sciences morales et politiques Paris)
By different actions, helped by a panel of experts through the international Scientific Advisory Board, the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation funds every year researchers from all countries and international research units for more than 20 years to searching on Down syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities from genetic origin.