Corning has been a trusted supplier to the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries since we introduced PYREX® glass in 1915. Today, we are a leader in life sciences laboratory tools and products, cell culture solutions, bioprocess vessels, and specialty surfaces. We are also helping to provide more reliable access to medicine with our revolutionary new glass packaging for drug storage and delivery.
Helping People Make and Deliver Medical Innovations
Helping People Make & Deliver Medical Innovations
We all want medicines that are safe and effective – that help us live longer, healthier lives. Corning's Life Sciences plays a crucial role in making this possible. In nearly every life sciences laboratory in the world, scientists rely on our products to develop the next wave of medical breakthroughs. We’re also using our industry expertise to shatter the market for traditional glass pharmaceutical packaging. New Corning Valor®Glass is a revolutionary technology that better protects drugs than the industry standard glass. And those drugs protect lives.
Throughout our century of experience with Life Sciences, we have become an important partner for researchers.
Corning works with scientists to help solve their specific challenges. Our trusted brands – including PYREX® glass, Falcon® products, and Axygen® products – can be found in more than 100,000 laboratories worldwide and are known for their quality, consistency, and reliability. Our technology is helping scientists tap into the power of cell therapy to cure disease, as well as leading the way with life sciences tools for 3D cell culture, bioprocessing, and genomics research.
In the world of pharmaceutical packaging, medicines are stored in the same packaging materials that were designed many decades ago. Conventional pharmaceutical packaging has not evolved in parallel with drug formulations and high speed processing equipment. Valor Glass addresses the need for modernization of pharmaceutical packaging.
To develop this product, we applied our expertise in optical physics, vapor deposition, precision forming, and extrusion to develop a 21stcentury glass container to protect 21stcentury drugs. The result is ValorGlass, a revolutionary breakthrough in pharmaceutical glass packaging technology that enhances the storage and delivery of today’s drug formulations and provides more reliable access to medicines essential to public health. Valor Glass dramatically reduces the probability of contamination by particles, breaks, and through cracks and also significantly increases throughput for manufacturers. Major pharmaceutical companies are working with Corning to bring this life sciences technology to patients.
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Disruptive Innovation
Disruptive Innovation
Our century-long history in life sciences begins with the perfect cake dish. In 1913 Bessie Littleton baked a cake on a piece of heat-resistant glass, brought home by her Corning physicist husband. The glass formula became PYREX®, a durable line of cookware and laboratory products. PYREX labware was pivotal to the mass production of penicillin during World War II, as well as to the development and production of the polio vaccine in the 1950s. Corning later introduced more technologies to accelerate vaccine development and enable cell-culture research. Since then, our cell culture vessels have set the global standard for cell culture in drug discovery and development. Valor Glass is our latest disruptive innovation in life sciences, which has the potential to revolutionize pharmaceutical packaging.
Our Strategic Advantage in Life Sciences
Our Strategic Advantage in Life Sciences
Our life sciences innovations draw on our three best-in-the-world core technologies and four expert manufacturing and engineering platforms – as well as trusted customer relationships.
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Expertise in Glass Expertise in Glass
Glass science expertise enables Corning to maintain leadership in Life Sciences and create next-generation pharmaceutical packaging.
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Glass science expertise enables Corning to maintain leadership in Life Sciences and create next-generation pharmaceutical packaging.
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Precision Forming Process
Precision Forming Process
Corning uses its precision forming assets to make life sciences vessels that require an extremely high degree of accuracy, such as liquid-handling tools and cell growth surfaces.
Corning uses its precision forming assets to make life sciences vessels that require an extremely high degree of accuracy, such as liquid-handling tools and cell growth surfaces.
The Extrusion Process The Extrusion Process
With its extrusion capabilities, Corning makes highly reliable and accurate pipettes for life sciences applications.
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With its extrusion capabilities, Corning makes highly reliable and accurate pipettes for life sciences applications.
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Life Sciences Technologies Sustainability
Life Sciences Technologies Sustainability
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See how Corning’s Life Science Technologies is bringing science to life sustainably, from research to drug delivery.
See how Corning’s Life Science Technologies is bringing science to life sustainably, from research to drug delivery.
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Corning, Pfizer share insights about collaboration during pharma conference keynote
Corning, Pfizer Valor® Partnership
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There’s an art and a method to Corning’s innovation alongside companies like Apple, Samsung, Ford, Verizon, Sharp – and most recently Merck and Pfizer. Wendell P. Weeks, chief executive officer of Corning, shared extensive insights about the drivers behind the company’s 169 years of successful collaboration, focusing on the development of revolutionary pharmaceutical packagingCorning Valor® Glass.
There’s an art and a method to Corning’s innovation alongside companies like Apple, Samsung, Ford, Verizon, Sharp – and most recently Merck and Pfizer. Wendell P. Weeks, chief executive officer of Corning, shared extensive insights about the drivers behind the company’s nearly 170 years of successful collaboration, focusing on the development of revolutionary pharmaceutical packagingCorning Valor® Glass.
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Drugs protect lives. Valor® protects drugs.
Drugs protect lives. Valor® protects drugs.
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We’ve applied our expertise in glass science, optical physics, vapor deposition, precision forming, and extrusion to design and develop a 21st century glass container to protect 21st century drugs. Valor® pharmaceutical packaging enhances the storage and delivery of drugs, providing more reliable access to medicines essential to public health.
We’ve applied our expertise in glass science, optical physics, vapor deposition, precision forming, and extrusion to design and develop a 21st century glass container to protect 21st century drugs. Valor® pharmaceutical packaging enhances the storage and delivery of drugs, providing more reliable access to medicines essential to public health.
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Corning Life Sciences Vice President Takes a Look at 3D Cell Culture
Corning Life Sciences Vice President Takes a Look at 3D Cell Culture
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Read about some of the promising benefits of 3D cell culture that have researchers and academia across the life sciences industry eager to learn more.
Read about some of the promising benefits of 3D cell culture that have researchers and academia across the life sciences industry eager to learn more.
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Corning Called Model for Economic Improvement
Corning Called Model for Economic Improvement
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Cuomo shares his enthusiasm for the economic opportunity Valor Glass will provide.
Cuomo shares his enthusiasm for the economic opportunity Valor Glass will provide.
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