Hoffmann-La Roche is still very much in the game, announcing in late 2020 that, with Atea, it was developing an oral antiviral treatment for Covid 19, that could be administered outside the hospital environment.
Maja’s father Luc came to Arles in the early 1950s with his wife Daria Hoffmann-Razumovsky, a descendent of a Russian aristocratic family which had become scattered around central Europe in the Bolshevik revolution.
An ornithologist, he set about saving the wetlands of the Camargue and its unique wildlife, establishing a research centre at the Tour du Valat, which still operates today.
In the 1970s, he co-founded the World Wildlife Fund. “My father was considered a dreamer,” says Maja. “But what he did was so important.” Now, she.
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