The recently launched corporate foundation of VWR International, LLC, celebrates its most charitable quarter yet

PHILADELPHIA — VWR International, LLC announced today that its recently launched corporate foundation, the VWR Foundation, has granted over $60,000 since late December 2009, making it the most charitable quarter yet for the one-year-old Foundation. The Foundation, which seeks to support research, science education, health and well-being initiatives across the globe, fulfilled grants to a diverse group of organizations from The Scripps Research Institute to Doctors Without Borders.

“Corporate responsibility has been a longstanding element that differentiates good organizations from great organizations; for VWR, this inspired our associates to establish the VWR Foundation,” stated John M. Ballbach, Chairman, President and CEO of VWR and President of the VWR Foundation. “Because enhancing the environments in which we work and live remains the Foundation’s paramount objective, our associates designed the Foundation to support areas of research, science education, health and well-being. These priorities are consistent with the synergies generated as a distributor of scientific supplies.”

Holding true to the Foundation’s mission to support innovative research initiatives, a contribution was made to The Scripps Research Institute, a research organization that is internationally recognized for its basic research in immunology, molecular and cellular biology, chemistry, neurosciences, autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular diseases, virology and synthetic vaccine development.

Two grants were awarded this quarter in the area of Science Education. The first was awarded to Schmahl Science Workshop, an organization that networks with teachers and scientists throughout the country to provide hands-on science activities for kids in a free-form environment. The second grant was awarded to the Science Museum of Minnesota, a large regional science museum located in downtown St. Paul that provides science education to an audience of more than one million students and science enthusiasts per year.

The VWR Foundation also made health and well-being a primary focus of its giving. In the wake of the devastating earthquake in Port-au-Prince earlier this year, the Foundation made a contribution to Doctors Without Borders to support the volunteer doctors and nurses providing urgent medical care to Haitian victims. In addition, the Foundation donated to Professionals Analyzing Pap Smears, Inc., a healthcare team composed of volunteer physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses and cyto-technologists that establish cervical cancer screening clinics in developing countries.

Most notably, VWR International, LLC and the VWR Foundation joined together to host a silent auction at the company’s North American Sales Meeting earlier this year. All proceeds from this event were donated to the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at the Children’s Medical Center Dallas.

About VWR Foundation

The VWR Foundation was started by five associates of VWR International, LLC who wanted to make a difference in the areas in which they worked and lived. The Foundation was officially established in January 2009 and focuses on research, health and well-being and science education. For more information about the VWR Foundation, visit www.VWRfoundation.org.

About VWR International, LLC

VWR International, LLC, headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, is a global laboratory supply and distribution company with worldwide sales in excess of $3.5 billion in 2009. VWR enables the advancement of the world’s most critical research through the distribution of a highly diversified product line to most of the world’s top pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as industrial, educational, and governmental organizations. With 150 years of industry experience, VWR offers a well-established distribution network that reaches thousands of specialized labs and facilities spanning the globe. VWR has over 6,500 associates around the world working to streamline the way researchers across North America, Europe, and Asia stock and maintain their labs. In addition, VWR further supports its customers by providing onsite services, storeroom management, product procurement, supply chain systems integration, and technical services.

For more information on VWR International, phone 1-800-932-5000, visit www.vwr.com, or write, VWR International, LLC, 1310 Goshen Parkway, P.O. Box 2656, West Chester, PA 19380-0906.

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