Company

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $20 billion and approximately 70,000 employees globally. Their mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Thermo Fisher Scientific helps their customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market and increase laboratory productivity. Therefore they develop a wide range of laboratory products for their customers, ranging from antibodies to microscopes. 

Lecture topic

Cryo-electron microscopy has become an increasingly important technique for determining protein structures. In 2015 it was chosen as Nature’s ‘Method of the year’ and in 2017 the Nobel prize for Chemistry was awarded for the development of cryo-electron microscopy.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is currently market leader in this field and their high end Krios microscope is developed and produced here in Eindhoven. Notable examples of its use are the discovery of the structure of the Zika and HIV virus, Tau filaments (that causes Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease) and the molecular mechanisms that cause cancer.

During this lecture a scientist from Thermo Fisher Scientific will talk about working in the field of cryo-electron microscopy and how their products contribute to new insights in the fields of biology, medicine and physiology.