Thermo Fisher Scientific and University of Birmingham agree alliance

Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced a new technology alliance partner agreement with the University of Birmingham to study new techniques that will assist future life science research.

The company will collaborate with scientists from the university to accelerate research in the fields of high-resolution accurate mass and triple quadrupole liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.

One part of the research will focus on metabolomics and will see the teams developing and testing new hardware and software approaches for metabolite detection and identification for environmental and clinical research.

Meanwhile, a separate proteomics project will exploit high-resolution mass spectrometry and gas-phase ion chemistry techniques to advance the top-down and bottom-up analysis of proteins.

Iain Mylchreest, vice-president for research and development at Thermo Fisher, said: "We look forward to a very productive collaboration with this innovative, creative group for advancing metabolomic and proteomic research."

The firm also announced this week that its facilities in San Jose, California and Franklin, Massachusetts have received ISO 13485 certification for the production of medical devices.