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We were able to continue hosting career panels around the globe through the nonprofit Skype a Scientist and converted our programs from the classroom to the home.
We also successfully piloted a skills-based volunteer program for our interns.
and created a positive proof of concept to roll out company wide in the future.
Focus on Community: Overview Our Why We are proud to have a purpose-driven business strategy and mission.
With the aim to bring the positive progress of genomics to all, we believe community engagement on a local and global level is critical to the foundation of a better world.
Fostering a culture that emboldens our employees to give back is integral to connecting to our mission.
We recognize that as the leader in genomics, we have a unique responsibility to use our resources for the greater good.
Every day, we strive to provide easy and meaningful opportunities for employees to engage in their communities and connect with organizations that matter most to them.
Our corporate giving connects to our CSR focus areas with the themes of access to genomics, diversity of genomic data, patient support, independent medical education, disaster response, and diversity.
global challenges Our CSR framework enabled us to focus our community response toward the global health crisis and to racial inequality.
Our employees and our company came together with the staunch belief that collectively we are stronger together.
We can embrace this opportunity to rebuild a more just, equitable, and sustainable future together.
Our Commitment We are committed to being good corporate citizens.
It is about more than simply giving back.
As a company we are proud and fortunate to have so many employees that enhance our communities through their generous contributions and volunteer efforts.
Illumina Cares Illumina Cares defines and governs the work Illumina does in the community.
By providing giving opportunities, we encourage employees to make a difference locally.
We match employee donations, offer paid volunteer time off, and support a volunteer rewards program to earn giving dollars for each hour of volunteer work.
To establish our culture of giving right from the start, each new hire receives seed money to their Illumina giving account to donate to the cause of their choice.
Skills-Based Volunteering iAspire, our internship program, includes programming to support Illumina Cares.
In with our interns facilitating the pilot of our first skills-based volunteer program.
Illumina currently blocks the Southern Poverty Law Center hate list from search, matching and volunteering; this comprises charitable organizations that have been found to discriminate against a specific race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Doing Things Differently in the Pandemic September’s Childhood Cancer Awareness Month was a time to highlight the important cause of childhood cancer and join together to make a difference.
In pandemic, we celebrated Childhood Cancer Awareness Month virtually, and asked employees to support September Go Gold by posting photos and spreading awareness.
For each photo, the Illumina Corporate Foundation made a donation to Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego.
Every year, our employees participate in Pedal the Cause activities.
Teams raise funds, make superhero capes for children, and ride, run, or walk to support the cause.
In the St. Louis Illumina Pedal Team Captain and Field Employee Walter Bass was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer.
After four years leading the Illumina Team’s efforts to give back in the community, he became a patient.
Even while undergoing treatment at Siteman Cancer Center, one of the very sites for which the team had previously raised funds, he remained focused on raising money to give back to the community.
COVID-no barrier, with employees jumping in from California to Australia and riding virtually in support of Walter Bass and his St. Louis team, raising close to $25,000.
Walter’s brave battle with cancer ended in December 2020.
We will honor his legacy through our mission to improve human health, and by continuing to champion patients and our community.
OUR STORIES OF IMPACT Personal Connections Our employees often have a very personal connection to our mission.
Vanessa Light, Illumina Corporate Citizenship Program Manager, became a patient family member when her diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Through genetic testing, doctors were able to identify an extra X chromosome in his DNA that provided insight and change management to his treatment regimen.
“I got to see firsthand how our technology impacts patients, and how our giving back efforts support the community,” said Vanessa.
Decked in Denim for Rare Disease Day Our employees are passionate about the rare disease community.
Since taken place around the world on the last day of February to raise awareness about rare disease, and highlight its impact on patients’ lives.
To mark Rare Disease Day, we encourage employees to post photos of themselves decked in denim for the Jeans for Genes (#JeansForGenes) fundraising campaign.
These funds were distributed to charities across our communities, including Rare Disorders Society (Singapore) (RDSS); Findacure; Illness Challenge Foundation; and the National Organization for Rare Disorders.
of employees surveyed feel support to give back to the community in ways to connect our mission.
of rare diseases are genetic While some rare diseases may only affect a handful of people around the world, taken as a whole the number of people directly affected exceeds the population of the US, the third most populous country in the world.
start in childhood Others are the result of infections (bacterial or viral), allergies and environmental causes, or are degenerative and proliferative.
https://www.rarediseaseday.org/ Our COVID-19 Response — Supporting Education Through the Pandemic During the pandemic, shifting to distance learning for school children exacerbated the problems of equity and exposed a growing digital divide for vulnerable students.
Support for Distance Learning To support efforts to ensure that school children had what they needed to continue their studies and pursue their dreams, we provided a $Diego Foundation COVID-19 Community Response Fund.
In San Diego, we funded through a $27,000 donation to the Fleet Science Center Distance Learning Hubs, which provide safe spaces for children to make use of their school’s online learning facilities while their parents are at work.
We also provided a $Scripps Birch Aquarium to enable them to engage virtually with students in after-school projects that bring together ocean science, conservation, and genomics.
In our Asia Pacific region, we donated $Well to help children access e-learning resources during the pandemic, and $35,000 to Save the Children Korea, which was utilized to provide computers and other resources to underprivileged children.
As a key component of our giving response to COVID, we asked our employees to assist in identifying the most impactful local opportunities to help, particularly the local organizations in their regions about which they were most passionate.
Over selection process, engaging with more than 20 different nonprofits from around the globe.
Illumina, Inc. donated $support the critical work undertaken during the pandemic by nonprofit Testing for America, which both supported the response to the COVID-19 testing crisis in the US, and helped to ensure the safe reopening of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
We are committed to equitable access to STEM education for all, with the goal of empowering students to envision themselves as future scientists, innovators, and trailblazers.
Our approach includes partnerships, direct programming, philanthropy, and employee engagement.
Our mission to improve human health commences with fostering a passion for science.
DNA Decoded A partnership between the Illumina Corporate Foundation and Discovery Education, DNA Decoded provides ready-to-go, standards-aligned lessons and activities for teachers and students to explore the ways in which they can see genomics being used in everyday life.
Explore DNA Decoded Career Profile Videos By showing what it is like to work at Illumina, we are able to introduce students to the diverse range of careers, both science and non-science related, our growing industry offers.
We support our employees volunteering in the classroom, and since launching the program in connected with classrooms around the world.
This enables students and members of the general public to connect directly with thousands of scientists around the world, helping to take the mystery out of genomics.
I Am A Scientist Through our partnership with I Am A Scientist, we support building a collection of educational resources designed to challenge public misconceptions and inspire the next generation of STEM leaders.
We have launched Illumina Genomic Discoveries with the Biocom Institute, a by strengthening the workforce and creating the leaders of tomorrow.
The program offers a series of programs to inspire, educate, and prepare students, and aims to increase teacher participation from Title 1 schools.
We dedicated a special section of our website to genomic-focused activities and resources for both young people and their teachers, providing lessons and activities to keep children busy at home when schools were forced to close.
This year, I volunteered virtually for the Skype a Scientist program, and had a great time chatting with a classroom of young people who were really keen to find out more about what scientists do and how I started my career at Illumina.
& ENGINEERING In March volunteered at the San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering.
More than enthusiasts attended the event, which was an ideal opportunity to help children discover the magic of the genome.
DNA Day Employees’ children from around the world chatted with Phil Febbo MD, our Chief Medical Officer, as part of a fun day of activities to celebrate DNA Day virtual Bring Your Kid to Work event.
, we aim to curate a diverse and inclusive workforce today and for the future by collaborating with our community partners to reach and inspire students of all backgrounds.
In made donations specifically designed to address the issue of racial inequality found in education and STEM studies.
We are deeply committed to creating equitable access to STEM education.
teaches advanced skills in genomics research to young people from underserved groups.
The grant will support a research project that uses DNA science to understand why some individuals are more resilient to COVID-19 than others.
This will contribute to important research into the ethnic disparities observed during the pandemic in the US and provide real-life science experience for the students.
OUR STORIES OF IMPACT Championing Careers in Genomics A key element of our work in supporting virtual career fairs to inspire young STEM students.
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, we held internal and external careers panels with schools based in communities where English was primarily a second language.
Our volunteers joined virtual sessions held entirely in Spanish and supported by the Bostonia Language Academy.
The sessions showcased careers in genomics and encouraged young people to consider different options for the future, demonstrating to students of all backgrounds that a viable path exists if they wish to pursue a career in the STEM industries.
are intertwined, connecting our company mission to improve human health with our commitment to operate responsibly and sustainably.
By understanding the marvels of nature, the power of the genetic code, and collective action, we can protect the planet that sustains us all.
: How has the pandemic created innovation opportunities in product design? A: Genomics offers insights that are changing our world.
The current COVID-has underscored the need for tools to detect and monitor emerging pathogens.
In response to this we launched COVIDSeq™, the first Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) test issued an EUA by the FDA.
Additionally, we launched the Illumina SARS-CoV-NGS Data Toolkit as a free collection of informatic resources powered by DRAGEN that accelerate sequencing data analysis and mutation detection, simplify global sample tracking, and make it easier for scientists to contribute to and access public databases.
Looking to will continue to deliver products that enable families to grow, people to stay healthy, and scientists to understand and conquer disease.
A: Relational design-led innovation is something we believe in and foster across Illumina.
The relationship between technology, people, product, and our planet truly motivates our scientists and engineers every day.
We are proud to connect our ground-breaking innovations to our sustainability goals and lead the way for our industry.
A: With the expanding body of genomics data, new challenges arise with data analysis and informatics.
The acquisitions of Edico, Enancio, and BlueBee positioned us to respond to this bottleneck as well as improve the environmental footprint.
The sustainability savings can be seen with a clear trend of improved power efficiency for data transmission.
The Enancio compression provides power-consumption savings per run, with power savings directly scaling with output capacity.
Our innovation is not only helping customers with new scientific insights, it is also contributing to sustainability enhancements throughout our value chain.
Q: Illumina’s role in responding to the global pandemic classified us as critical infrastructure.
A: Illumina qualified as an exempt healthcare operation with critical infrastructure designation.
Our top priority was the health and safety of our employees.
Our next priority was to ensure that our customers and our internal labs could continue efforts researching and responding to the pandemic using our technology.
We applied multiple layers of safety measures on campus, including facility modifications, temperature screening, daily health check-ins, density limits in the labs, increased air exchange rates, workforce segregation, and enhanced sanitization to name a few.
We applied our business continuity planning and engaged our supply chain and transportation partners to ensure a variety of options were available to continue meeting the needs of our customers.
The operations teams around the globe adjusted to keep our employees safe, our product quality protected, and our customers enabled.
A: We have operationalized the strategic environmental targets into site-level goals.

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