(1) to protect, preserve and advance all or any aspects of the health and welfare of humankind and to advance and promote knowledge and education by engaging in, encouraging and supporting:
(a) research into any of the biosciences; and
(b) the discovery, invention, improvement, development and application of treatments, cures, diagnostics and other medicinal agents, methods and processes that may in any way relieve illness, disease, disability or disorders of whatever nature in human beings or animal or plant life; and
(2) to advance and promote knowledge and education by engaging in, encouraging and supporting:
(a) research into the history of any of the biosciences; and
(b) the study and understanding of any of the biosciences or the history of any of the biosciences.