Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. serves the scientific community through a broad offering of innovative products and services. Thermo Fisher Scientific serves customers working in pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as environmental, industrial, research and development, quality and process control settings. The company's global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through its brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. The company continuously increases its depth of capabilities across its broad portfolio of innovative products and services and leverages its extensive global channels to address customers' needs. The company does this through organic investments in research and development, capacity and capabilities and through acquisitions. The company's goal is to enable its customers to be more productive in an increasingly competitive business environment, enable them to accelerate innovation, solve their challenges and advance their important work. The company's history roots back to the year 1956 when the business was first established. Thermo Fisher Scientific was formed in 2006 from the merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.