Community

By sharing our time, talent, and technology, we aim to inspire, support, and empower our communities, our employees, and the next generation.

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Health & Healthcare

Greenwood Genetic Center: Answering the Unanswered
Before next-generation sequencing (NGS) came along, children and families with rare and undiagnosed genetic diseases often faced years-long diagnostic odysseys. By providing comprehensive, unbiased information, NGS has helped diagnose thousands of people with rare diseases, giving clinicians, patients, and families essential information to move forward.

Health & Healthcare

IGB Gene Drive Aims To Broaden Science Accessibility
Advances in genomic studies have now permeated all aspects of our lives from agriculture to health and wellness. It is therefore becoming increasingly important to help the community understand these innovations so that they can navigate the increasingly complex realm of genomics.

Education

Boosting STEM Education in Bangladesh
Illumina and the Illumina Corporate Foundation have provided a grant to the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF), a Bangladeshi nonprofit that promotes public health and STEM education. The grant, worth over $300,000, includes cash and in-kind product.

Education

UC San Diego Students Cross Borders and Explore New Fields in STEM
Growing up in Tijuana, Mexico, Olivia Graeve was interested in pursuing the sciences but didn’t quite know how to make a career of it. To her knowledge, no cross-border student exchange programs for scientific research were available to her.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Illumina Interns Donate Over 500 Hours to Complete Fifteen Social Impact Projects
Each summer, our Illumina interns put our culture of giving back into action by completing a social impact project.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Illumina Supports Enhanced Genomics-Enabled Discovery and Training Programs at UC San Diego
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego announced today that Illumina, a global leader in development and application of genomic technology to improve human and environmental health, has provided researchers at the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine at Scripps new scientific equipment to build genomics and laboratory automation-enabled discovery and training programs.

Education

SD2 Students Receive Illumina STEM Scholars Award
Applications for the Illumina/SD2 STEM Scholars Award opened in the Fall, and closed in January with a total of 36 student applications. The scholarship was open to all 10th through 12th grade students in San Diego County.

Education

The Future Is Bright Campaign Expands Into China
Every year for DNA Day in April, Illumina teams organize “The Future Is Bright” activities around the world to inspire students’ STEM learning through community partners and educators teaching genomics in their classrooms.

Education

The Future is Bright Campaign Reaches More Than 90,000 STEM Learners
In 2003, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives declared April 25 “DNA Day” to celebrate the completion of the Human Genome Project and the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

Education

Illumina Expands STEM Education Efforts at BizTown Opening
On May 31, Illumina celebrated the official opening of the newest storefront in The McGrath Family Junior Achievement (JA) BizTown, in San Diego, California.
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