Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. operates globally, providing a comprehensive portfolio of offerings that span life sciences solutions, advanced analytical instrumentation, specialized diagnostic products, and an extensive range of laboratory supplies and services. Its Life Sciences Solutions division equips professionals with reagents, essential instruments, and consumables. These are critical for biological and medical research, the development and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and vaccines, and the identification of infections and diseases. Key clientele include the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agricultural, clinical, healthcare, academic, and governmental sectors. The Analytical Instruments segment delivers sophisticated instruments, accompanying consumables, software, and support services. These products find application in diverse settings such as laboratories, manufacturing lines, and field operations, serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, governmental, environmental, and broader industrial research markets, as well as clinical laboratories. Through its Specialty Diagnostics segment, the company supplies a variety of diagnostic tools. This includes liquid, lyophilized, and ready-to-use immunodiagnostic reagent kits, alongside calibrators, controls, and calibration verification fluids. Notable brand-specific offerings are ImmunoCAP for allergy and asthma testing, and EliA for autoimmunity diagnostics. The segment also provides dehydrated and prepared culture media, sample collection and transport systems, relevant instrumentation, consumables, and products for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing and testing in the organ transplant field, in addition to other healthcare products. Finally, the Laboratory Products and Services segment offers fundamental laboratory equipment. This encompasses refrigerators and freezers (including ultralow-temperature models and cryopreservation tanks), systems for temperature control, sample preparation and preservation, centrifugation, and biological safety cabinets. Also included are water analysis instruments, various laboratory plastics, essential laboratory chemicals, and pharmaceutical services. Thermo Fisher Scientific distributes its products and services via multiple channels: a dedicated direct sales force, customer service teams, e-commerce platforms, third-party distributors, and product catalogs. The company also maintains a significant strategic alliance with the University of California, San Francisco. Established in 1956, the company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.