Needed Items

Thank you for your interest in helping scientists in developing countries make a public health impact in their communities by ensuring that they have the equipment, materials, and supplies they need to conduct research on priority infectious diseases! Because we have a well-developed network of biomedical scientists around the world, SSI can ensure that your donation is put to good use - and quickly. All donations are tax-deductible and donors are not liable for equipment malfunctions and defects.

The most urgently-needed items include:

Thermocyclers	Agarose Gel    Electrophoresis Units
Acrylamide Gel Electrophoresis Units	Electrophoresis Power Supplies
Automatic Micropipettors	Automatic Pipettors
Microcentrifuge Tube Racks	Micropipettor Tips, 10-200 ul
Microcentrifuge Tubes, .5-1.5 ml	Micropipettor Tips, 1-20 ul and 20-200 ul
Analytical Balances	Balances
Freezer Boxes	Freezer Tubes
15 ml Conical Centrifuge Tubes	50 ml Conical Centrifuge Tubes
Low-Speed Centrifuges	Microcentrifuges
Picofuges	Heating/Stirring Plates
Shakers	Spectrophotometer

Other much-needed items include:

• New plastic consumables of all kinds (.2-.5 ul PCR tubes, .5-1.5ml microcentrifuge tubes, conical tubes, centrifuge tubes, tips)
• PCR equipment and reagents
• Electrophoresis equipment
• Power supplies
• pH meters
• Photodocumentation equipment
• Restriction Enzymes
• Reverse transcriptase
• Transluminator with ultraviolet light

Note: If your organization is upgrading to photodocumentation machines, please consider donating your old transluminators to SSI! If you have other equipment (incubators, deep freezers etc,) please contact us directly.