Thermo Fisher Wins Microsoft Award

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc has been selected as a winner of Microsoft Corporation’s Life Sciences Innovation Awards 2010 for the third consecutive year, for its provision of informatics solutions to the life sciences industry. The company was selected, along with Emory University, part of the Atlantic Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI), for the use of a Nautilus LIMS to advance information exchange in the clinical and translational science environment across a diverse set of laboratories.

The ACTSI is focused on accelerating the translation of laboratory discoveries into healthcare innovations for patients and plays an important role in North American health research by supporting investigators across

Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), Grady Hospital, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech). The ACTSI implemented Nautilus LIMS™ at Emory

University as part of an enterprise biospecimen management system rollout to enhance workflow, foster collaboration and effectively manage samples. With the need to connect many laboratories and external institutions

with its enterprise LIMS, Emory achieved a level of standardisation with Nautilus that is replicable across configurations and gave Emory and ACTSI an informatics solution that will be an important component of their

translational science informatics infrastructure. The award was announced at the Drug Information Association’s (DIA) 46th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.