Thermo Fisher Scientific collaborates with University of Birmingham Phenome Centre

Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced plans to extend its technology collaboration with the University of Birmingham’s new Phenome Centre.

Thermo Fisher will supply a range of advanced mass spectrometry instruments to be used for the centre’s research in metabolic phenotyping and metabolomics studies.

The £8 million Phenome Centre will provide University of Birmingham scientists with the tools needed to conduct large-scale metabolic phenotyping research.

Professor Mark Viant, director of Phenome Centre Birmingham, said: “We are pleased to continue our long-standing collaboration with Thermo Fisher in these important areas of metabolome research.”

Iain Mylchreest, vice president of R&D for chromatography and mass spectrometry at Thermo Fisher, said: “We look forward to furthering our highly productive, multi-faceted collaboration with the University and congratulate them on the opening of the new Phenome Centre.

“These scientific relationships are mutually beneficial in helping us to advance our analytical tools and technologies that, in turn, enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.”

The centre’s goal is to better understand biochemical mechanisms, targets and biomarkers associated with aging and disease, to enable a stratified medicine approach that will enhance patient outcomes.