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Press Release Summary: PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (October 10, 2008) - Thermo Fisher
Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science announced today that the
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has awarded the company a contract for
its Nautilus LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) for use in the medical
school's spinal cord injury research. During the project, scientists will integrate
Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS with other Thermo Scientific instrumentation and
robotics to automate the high-content screening in the laboratories of The Miami
Project to Cure Paralysis at the Miller School.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Wins LIMS Contract from University of Miami Miller School
of Medicine

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (October 10, 2008) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world
leader in serving science announced today that the University of Miami Miller School
of Medicine has awarded the company a contract for its Nautilus LIMS (Laboratory
Information Management System) for use in the medical school's spinal cord injury
research. During the project, scientists will integrate Thermo Scientific Nautilus
LIMS with other Thermo Scientific instrumentation and robotics to automate the
high-content screening in the laboratories of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at
the Miller School.

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis is the world's largest spinal cord injury
research center, looking for new treatments by understanding injury mechanisms and
researching treatments to prevent cell death after spinal cord injury. Vance
Lemmon, Ph.D., professor of neurological surgery, co-directs the Laboratory for Axon
Growth and Guidance at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, which investigates genes
involved in axon growth and guidance during nervous system development and
regeneration subsequent to spinal cord injury.

"Our work is accomplished using a technology called High Content Screening, an area
in which Thermo Fisher excels," said Dr. Lemmon. "High Content Screening generates
very large quantities of data, which the laboratory previously managed via manual
methods such as spreadsheets, notebooks, and databases."

Dr. Lemmon's experiments take advantage of extensive compound and gene collections
stored in 96-well plates. The Miami Project team selected Nautilus LIMS because they
believe it could help them successfully keep abreast of the large volumes of data
and keep track of the reagents in hundreds of 96 well plates. During the selection
process they also underscored the versatility of Nautilus and its proven ability to
manage plate data and to adapt to the workflow needs of the academic laboratory.

Because of the nature of the translational clinical research underway at The Miami
Project to Cure Paralysis, the laboratory uses complex and rapidly changing
workflows. Twenty academic research scientists work collaboratively on many
different experiments, but the manual nature of their current recordkeeping makes it
impossible to track and access the growing number of experimental results. Dr.
Lemmon required a LIMS that could easily and rapidly capture all the data from the
experiments, as well as one that could quickly identify raw materials used in the
experiments since reagent quality can have a significant impact on the results. The
laboratory looked at 10 LIMS suppliers and found that Thermo Scientific Nautilus
offered the best plate handling tools (the laboratory uses many multi-well plates)
and its workflow functionality allowed the laboratory to track its experiments and
capture their complicated results in a way no other LIMS demonstrated.

"My laboratory has seen an explosion in the number of cells we analyze - to levels
around 250,000 per week with hundreds of molecular treatments - and we needed to be
able to access that data and analyze it to give us knowledge that was not otherwise
available without the LIMS," said Dr. Lemmon. "Our academic processes are now so
complex and Nautilus will give us the information we were struggling to extract."

Nautilus LIMS will sit at the heart of the laboratory's operations, and it will be
integrated with Thermo Scientific Arrayscan and Cellomics KineticScan instruments
and robotics. The scientists will use Nautilus LIMS to automate the high-content
screens and assays including priotorized planning of experiments in the laboratory
and, equally important, for raw materials inventory management to identify faulty
reagent batches which are impossible to track back through paper notebooks.

For more information about Thermo Scientific informatics solutions, please call +1
866-463-6522, e-mail marketing.informatics@thermofisher.com or visit
www.thermo.com/informatics.

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science.

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Miller School of Medicine Boilerplate

The University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, founded in 1952, was
the first medical school in the state of Florida. The Miller School of Medicine is
located on the 100-acre University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center complex
in Miami. The medical center includes three University-owned hospitals that make up
the University of Miami Health System (UHealth): University of Miami Hospital,
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. Our three
primary affiliated hospitals on the campus include Jackson Memorial Hospital, Holtz
Children's Hospital and the Miami VA Medical Center. Miller School faculty members
conduct more than 1,700 research projects in basic science and clinical care in
facilities totaling more than 500,000 square feet of research space.
Along with the M.D. degree, the school offers two specialized B.S./M.D.
programs, a combined M.D./Ph.D. program, graduate degrees in nine areas,
postdoctoral programs and continuing medical education courses.



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Name: Kath Darlington
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Name: Patty McDermott
Phone: +1 781 287 4839
E-mail: patricia.mcdermott@thermofisher.com
Website: www.thermo.com/informatics