Thermo Fisher Scientific to provide equipment for University of Birmingham

Thermo Fisher Scientific is providing new equipment to support the work done by the University of Birmingham.

The company will extend its technology collaboration with the university by supplying advanced mass spectrometry instruments to be used at the university's new Phenome Centre.

This will aid its research in the fields of metabolic phenotyping and metabolomics studies, bolstering scientific understanding of biochemical mechanisms, targets and biomarkers associated with ageing and disease.

Among the equipment will be the Thermo Scientific Q Exactive Focus Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap, TSQ Quantiva Triple Quadrupole and Orbitrap Elite Hybrid Ion Trap-Orbitrap mass spectrometers, each of which is equipped with a Thermo Scientific liquid chromatography system.

Iain Mylchreest, vice-president of research and development for chromatography and mass spectrometry at Thermo Fisher Scientific, said: "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 company has been in collaboration with Professor Mark Viant and Dr Warwick Dunn from the University of Birmingham for more than a decade.