Corning has announced the Corning Lab for the Cure programme.
Through a donation of USD250,000 (GBP165,000), Corning will engage with Susan G Komen for the Cure throughout 2010 in co-marketing and co-branding initiatives to increase awareness and find a cure for breast cancer.
Susan G Komen for the Cure is the largest funder of breast-cancer research outside of the US government.
Since 1983 the organisation has invested USD400m (GBP260m) toward finding a cure, with more than USD152m invested in research projects from 2006 to 2009.
'Susan G Komen for the Cure is proud to welcome Corning Life Sciences as a collaborator in its promise to end breast cancer forever,' said Elizabeth Thompson, senior vice president, medical and scientific affairs at Susan G Komen for the Cure.
'Every major advance in breast cancer has been touched by a Komen grant and this collaboration will allow us to continue funding groundbreaking research and life-saving community-outreach projects.' The Corning Lab for the Cure program will provide Corning customers in the US and Canada with the opportunity to support Susan G Komen for the Cure through their everyday purchases of select products.
Corning Life Sciences products that are part of the Corning Lab for the Cure program include: Costar pipettes; Corning 100mm dishes; Corning cell scrapers; Corning 50ml centrifuge tubes; Pyrex reusable glass media bottles; Corning PES filter systems; and Corning 150ml tube top filters.
As part of this programme and beginning in the second quarter of 2010, Corning Life Sciences plans to offer special-edition products that will feature pink caps and handles.
These products will include Corning cell scrapers, Pyrex reusable glass media bottles and Corning 50ml centrifuge tubes.
Kim Titus, business development manager, Corning Life Sciences, said: 'Susan G Komen for the Cure grants have helped make a significant impact for researchers and scientists, including many who use our products, in the fight against breast cancer.
'Our Corning Lab for the Cure program is an ideal way to give back to the life-science industry and support a cause that touches people's lives far beyond the laboratory walls.' Corning Life Sciences provides products and services in the areas of polymer science, biochemistry and molecular biology, glass melting and forming, surface modification and characterisation science.
Corning cell-culture and assay labware products include tissue-culture dishes; 6-, 12-, 24- and 48-well cell-culture plates; 96-, 384- and 1536-well microplates; roller bottles; flasks; tips; Hyperflask vessels; and PCR reaction vessels.
The company has also produced a line of plastic laboratory disposables and reusable glassware.
