Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world's leading provider of scientific instrumentation, reagents and consumables, software and services for research, analysis, discovery and diagnostics. Formed in 2006 by the merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific, it serves pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic laboratories, universities, research institutes and government agencies through brands including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.