Birmingham Centre Equipped for Metabolic Profiling

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc, is extending its technology collaboration with the University of Birmingham, UK through the supply of advanced quadrupole mass spectrometry instruments and liquid chromatography systems to the University’s new Phenome Centre.

In collaboration with Birmingham Health Partners, the Phenome Centre Birmingham, officially opened on May 23 by Professor Sir Mark Walport, Government Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Government Office for Science in the UK, is an £8M facility that aims to provide University of Birmingham scientists with the tools needed to conduct large-scale metabolic phenotyping research. The centre’s goal is to better understand biochemical mechanisms, targets and biomarkers associated with ageing and disease, to enable a stratified medicine approach that will enhance patient outcomes.

“We are pleased to continue our long-standing collaboration with Thermo Fisher in these important areas of metabolome research,” said Professor Mark Viant, Director of Phenome Centre Birmingham. “Combined with our strong impact in technology and method development, we look forward to the benefits we will translate to the human population through stratified medicine approaches.”

“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,” said Iain Mylchreest, vice president of R&D for chromatography and mass spectrometry at Thermo Fisher. “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.”

Thermo Fisher has been in collaboration with Professor Mark Viant and Dr. Warwick Dunn from the University of Birmingham for more than 10 years. Most recently, the organisations collaborated to accelerate research in high-resolution accurate mass (HRAM) and triple quadrupole liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) for life sciences applications.