Jerome-Lejeune foundation

The Fondation Jerome-Lejeune is a French foundation which works for the Recherche on the diseases of the intelligence, in the forefront of which the Trisomie 21. It thus continues the work to which Jerome Lejeune (1926-1994) devoted his life. She was recognized of public utility on opinion of the Council of State on March 20th 1996.

Objective

The foundation carries out triple activity of Medical research, care with the handicapped people and of defense of their rights and their Dignité.

The Jerome-Lejeune Foundation:

is the first financor in France of research on trisomy 21, it collaborates with the majority of the French teams working on the subject;
created a consultation specialized at the Jerome-Lejeune Institute combining the care and research;
launched the site planête 21 , the first site made with and for the trisomic people 21 and généthique.org , first French-speaking site of topicality bioethics.

The Jerome-Lejeune Foundation has a “ethical Label”: it “is committed exclusively financing research which respects the human being as of the beginning of its life. It will not support any project using the embryos or the fetuses like material of research. The Jerome-Lejeune Foundation thus makes the choice of a future where the advances in knowledge remain with the service of the man. ”

The Jerome-Lejeune Foundation considers that the embryos are human beings as of their design. It thus takes firmly party against the abortion, relaying in that the fight of its founder, member of the pontifical Académie for the life. The foundation is thus, in 2006, at the origin of the polemic around the Telethon, of which part of the funds are used for research on human embryos, causing their destruction.

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