Thermo Fisher wins Microsoft Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award

Thermo Fisher Scientific has won the Microsoft Corporation 2009 Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award in the Discovery and Product Innovation category for the second consecutive year. The award honours innovative use of Microsoft-based solutions.

Microsoft selected Norway-based Hunt Research Centre and Biobank in recognition of its use of Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS (laboratory information management system) to manage and analyse large amounts of real-time medical data and provide valuable insight into disease status and progression.

Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS provided Hunt with a comprehensive biobanking solution to gather, store, manage, track and retrieve large amounts of data securely, and yield real-time, analysis and reports for one of the largest population-based health studies ever performed.

Hunt and Biobank implemented Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS to automate their process from the clinic to the laboratory in order to accommodate the vast scope and progressively increasing complexity of the study. Three studies spanning 25 years have been run on an integrated family and personal database of approximately 100,000 people from Norway. The studies support epidemiological, clinical and preventative medical research and offer valuable insight into disease status and progression.

Hunt paired Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS with Microsoft technology, including InfoPath and SQL Server to increase throughput and automation.

"The implementation of Nautilus LIMS has set new standards for functionality and efficient use of the HUNT laboratory resources. Nautilus LIMS has been very easy to implement right out-of-the-box while offering the added benefit of being fully compatible with Microsoft Office for maximum ease of use with little or no user training," said Thor Gunnar Steinsli, LIMS manager of Hunt Research Centre and Biobank.