Thermo Fisher Scientific and NVIDIA Form Strategic Alliance to Transform Laboratories Through AI and Automation
Thermo Fisher Scientific a global leader in scientific services and laboratory technologies, has announced a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA aimed at accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across scientific instrumentation and laboratory environments. This partnership seeks to redefine how modern laboratories operate by integrating advanced AI capabilities, automation, and high-performance computing to improve efficiency, accuracy, and speed at scale.
The collaboration brings together Thermo Fisher Scientific’s extensive portfolio of laboratory instruments, software platforms, and scientific expertise with NVIDIA’s industry-leading AI infrastructure and computing technologies. Together, the companies plan to develop next-generation AI-powered solutions that will modernize laboratory workflows, reduce manual intervention, and enable scientists to focus more on discovery and innovation.
Transforming the Laboratory of the Future
Despite rapid technological progress in many industries, laboratory environments across the world still rely heavily on manual processes. Scientists often spend a significant portion of their time designing experiments, preparing samples, configuring instruments, running analyses, and interpreting results by hand. These labor-intensive workflows can slow down research timelines, introduce variability, and limit scalability.
The collaboration between Thermo Fisher Scientific and NVIDIA aims to address these challenges by embedding AI directly into laboratory instruments, infrastructure, and data systems. By creating smarter, more connected laboratories, the partnership seeks to enable seamless interactions between scientists, instruments, and digital platforms.
Through the integration of AI-based software and automation technologies, laboratories will be able to operate more efficiently, generate higher-quality data, and accelerate scientific progress across multiple disciplines, including life sciences, biotechnology, diagnostics, and pharmaceutical research.
Leveraging NVIDIA’s AI Infrastructure
At the core of the collaboration is NVIDIA’s advanced AI ecosystem, which includes high-performance computing platforms, AI models, and software frameworks designed to support complex scientific workloads. Thermo Fisher Scientific plans to integrate NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure—such as NVIDIA DGX Spark™, a powerful desktop supercomputer for AI development and deployment—into its laboratory solutions.
In addition, the partnership will leverage NVIDIA’s AI models and frameworks, including NVIDIA NeMo™ and NVIDIA BioNeMo™, which are specifically designed to support scientific research, biological modeling, and life sciences applications. These tools will help laboratories process large volumes of experimental data, identify patterns, and generate insights faster than traditional approaches.
By combining NVIDIA’s computational power with Thermo Fisher’s deep understanding of laboratory operations, the collaboration aims to create intelligent systems that can assist scientists throughout the entire research lifecycle—from experiment design to data analysis and interpretation.
Smarter, Connected Scientific Workflows
A key focus of the partnership is the development of smarter, more connected scientific workflows. Rather than treating instruments, data, and software as separate components, Thermo Fisher and NVIDIA are working to build an integrated digital foundation that unifies these elements into a cohesive ecosystem.
This digital foundation will enable laboratory instruments to communicate with one another, share data in real time, and interact with AI-driven software applications. As a result, laboratories can move toward more automated and adaptive workflows, where AI systems help guide experiments, optimize instrument performance, and reduce the need for repetitive manual tasks.
For scientists, this means spending less time on routine operational activities and more time on hypothesis generation, experimental design, and scientific interpretation. The result is a more productive research environment that supports faster decision-making and improved outcomes.
Advancing Laboratory Automation at Scale
Automation has long been recognized as a critical factor in improving laboratory productivity, but scaling automation across diverse laboratory environments has remained a challenge. The Thermo Fisher–NVIDIA collaboration aims to overcome these barriers by using AI to orchestrate and optimize automated processes across instruments and workflows.
By embedding AI into laboratory infrastructure, the collaboration seeks to enable adaptive automation—systems that can learn from data, adjust to changing conditions, and continuously improve performance. This approach goes beyond traditional automation by allowing laboratories to operate with greater flexibility and resilience.
AI-powered automation can also enhance accuracy by minimizing human error, standardizing procedures, and ensuring consistent execution of complex protocols. Over time, these improvements can lead to higher-quality data, improved reproducibility, and more reliable scientific outcomes.
Enhancing the Scientist Experience
Another important goal of the collaboration is to improve the overall user experience for scientists working in the laboratory. Thermo Fisher and NVIDIA are focused on creating intuitive interfaces and AI-assisted tools that make it easier for researchers to interact with complex instruments and datasets.
By leveraging AI-driven user interfaces, scientists can receive real-time guidance, automated recommendations, and predictive insights that help them design better experiments and interpret results more effectively. This approach helps democratize access to advanced technologies, enabling researchers with varying levels of expertise to take advantage of sophisticated analytical capabilities.
As laboratories become increasingly data-intensive, AI-powered tools will play a critical role in helping scientists navigate complexity, identify meaningful insights, and accelerate discovery.
Industry Perspectives on AI-Driven Science
Leaders from both companies emphasized the transformative potential of combining AI with laboratory automation. Gianluca Pettiti, Executive Vice President at Thermo Fisher Scientific, highlighted how AI can fundamentally change the way scientific work is performed.
According to Pettiti, the integration of artificial intelligence with laboratory automation has the potential to significantly improve efficiency, accuracy, and experimental value. By uniting Thermo Fisher’s leadership in laboratory technologies with NVIDIA’s AI expertise, the collaboration aims to help customers achieve faster results and unlock new levels of productivity, ultimately accelerating discoveries that can have a meaningful impact on human health and society.
Kimberly Powell, Vice President of Healthcare at NVIDIA, described the collaboration as a step toward a new paradigm in scientific research. She referred to the emergence of “lab-in-the-loop” science, where AI systems, intelligent agents, and laboratory instruments work together in a continuous feedback loop.
In this model, AI does not simply analyze data after experiments are completed but actively participates in the scientific process, helping to guide experiments, optimize workflows, and scale discovery at an industrial pace. Powell emphasized that this collaboration lays the groundwork for autonomous laboratories capable of driving faster breakthroughs in life sciences research.
Strengthening Thermo Fisher’s Position in Life Sciences
The partnership with NVIDIA further reinforces Thermo Fisher Scientific’s position as a leading provider of instruments, consumables, software, and services for the life sciences industry. By integrating AI into its offerings, Thermo Fisher is expanding the value of its ecosystem and enabling customers to operate more effectively in an increasingly data-driven research environment.
Thermo Fisher’s broad network of technology partners also plays a critical role in this strategy. By collaborating with NVIDIA and other leading technology providers, the company is creating an interconnected ecosystem where instruments, data platforms, software solutions, and scientific expertise work together seamlessly.
This integrated approach enables laboratories to move beyond isolated tools and adopt unified solutions that amplify productivity, enhance collaboration, and support more ambitious research goals.
Implications for Healthcare and Life Sciences
While the collaboration is focused on laboratory infrastructure and scientific instrumentation, its implications extend across the healthcare and life sciences sectors. Improved laboratory efficiency and data analysis can accelerate drug discovery, improve diagnostics, support precision medicine, and enable faster responses to emerging health challenges.
By enabling scientists to work more efficiently and generate higher-quality insights, AI-powered laboratories can shorten development timelines, reduce costs, and increase the likelihood of successful outcomes in research and development programs.
Over time, these advancements have the potential to translate into better therapies, improved patient outcomes, and more resilient healthcare systems.
The press release includes forward-looking statements regarding the expected impact of the collaboration on scientific workflows, laboratory performance, and Thermo Fisher Scientific’s business. These statements reflect current expectations and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including factors beyond the company’s control.
Actual results may differ materially from these projections due to market conditions, technological challenges, regulatory considerations, and other factors described in the company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including its most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q reports.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has stated that it undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
The strategic collaboration between Thermo Fisher Scientific and NVIDIA represents a significant step forward in the evolution of scientific laboratories. By combining AI, automation, and advanced computing with deep domain expertise in laboratory science, the partnership aims to create smarter, faster, and more connected research environments.
As laboratories continue to generate increasing volumes of complex data, AI-driven solutions will be essential to unlocking their full potential. Through this collaboration, Thermo Fisher and NVIDIA are positioning themselves at the forefront of a new era in scientific discovery—one where intelligent systems empower scientists to achieve breakthroughs with greater speed, precision, and impact.
About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue over $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them.
