Thermo Fisher Wins Innovation Award

SAN JOSE, Calif. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. won a GIT Innovation Award for its SOLA Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) cartridges and plates. An independent jury nominates products for the awards, which are given every six years.

Its very gratifying to receive this kind of recognition from such a prestigious and large part of the scientific community," said Mike Oliver, Thermo Fisher Scientific product manager, sample preparation.

Thermo Fisher's SPE products allow users to concentrate and purify samples, ensuring more selective detection of compounds. As a result, users have higher reproducibility, cleaner extracts, reduced solvent consumption and more confidence in results.

Thermo Fisher has 39,000 employees working in the analytical science industry. In October, the company introduced the Thermo Scientific Acclaim Trinity Q1 HPLC column for liquid chromatography-mass spectrometery (LC-MS).