A delegation sent by the Labexchange company, based in the town of Burladingen/Germany, is travelling to Tübingen this week in order to hand over an equipment donation to the child cancer aid association “Förderverein für krebskranke Kinder Tübingen e.V.”.

Since 1982, this aid association has been taking care of the interests of child cancer patients as well as their parents, siblings and grandparents, in particular by committing itself to providing direct support to the families in the form of association-owned housing facilities, assistance programmes at the paediatric hospital in Tübingen but also psychosocial care schemes.

Merle Klaiber, speaker of the association´s board of directors, approached the Labexchange Foundation in April this year to solicit support. An essential research device employed for the production of killer cells within the framework of leukaemia treatment at the paediatric hospital in Tübingen had broken down.

One of the fields the Labexchange Foundation is very active in is the sector of cancer research, trying to find improved therapies for child cancer patients.

A highly complex inverted fluorescence phase contrast microscope for tissue culture applications was needed, a device that enables its users to identify fluorescent cells and compile an illustrated documentation of the cell populations by means of an adapted camera.

As a matter of course, Labexchange had no hesitation in making every effort to come to their aid via its own foundation because the aid association, its work and this particular appeal for assistance are highly emotional topics.

Consequently, a microscope to the value of €20,000 featuring the appropriate properties could be procured in order to be then handed over to the Tübingen-based aid association.

On behalf of the Labexchange Foundation, CEO Dr. Wolfgang Kuster, authorized representative Maximilian Kuster and marketing specialist Jasmin Dehner have now been able to present the research microscope in person to Anton Hofmann, chairman of the board, at the association´s headquarters at Frondsbergstraße 51 in Tübingen / Germany this week.

“We are extremely happy about having been provided with this urgently needed microscope free of charge and at such short notice by the Labexchange Foundation,” said chairman of the board Anton Hofmann after having been handed over the device.

The Labexchange Foundation (www.Wolfgang-Kuster-Stiftung.de) is a charitable organization particularly committed to supporting and fostering the health care system and other cultural as well as social projects. At regular intervals, the Labexchange Award is bestowed upon young people, honoring their proactive endeavours in the field of chemical analytics.