Thermo Fisher Scientific announced that Michel Lagarde, the company’s Chief Operating Officer and second‐in‐command, will leave the organization to pursue another opportunity. Lagarde joined Thermo Fisher in 2019 following the acquisition of Patheon and was instrumental in integrating the company’s contract development and manufacturing operations. During his tenure, Thermo Fisher expanded its CDMO footprint by completing over 20 transactions, adding approximately 30 manufacturing sites and increasing annual revenues in the pharma services segment by more than $3 billion. The company’s board has initiated a global search for his successor, emphasizing continuity of operations across the 90,000‐employee organization and reaffirming its commitment to maintaining high service levels for biopharma and diagnostics customers worldwide.

Thermo Fisher extended its partnership with NVIDIA to develop AI‐driven autonomous lab infrastructure that promises to transform scientific research workflows. Under the agreement, the companies will integrate NVIDIA’s DGX Spark desktop supercomputer and BioNeMo data‐processing libraries with Thermo Fisher’s leading lab instrumentation. Key initiatives include deploying unified edge‐to‐cloud AI compute networks to manage high‐throughput experiments and developing multi‐agent orchestration systems using the NVIDIA NeMo software suite to autonomously generate protocols, monitor quality control and analyze results in real time. This collaboration aims to convert traditional labs into scalable data factories, with potential to increase experimental throughput by up to 40% and reduce cycle times for new assay development by nearly half.

Thermo Fisher’s consumer segment, Nalgene Outdoor, unveiled its 2026 Thrill & Motion color collection, featuring six new 32‐ounce bottle and cap combinations crafted from Tritan™ Renew with 50% recycled material. The collection’s design blends warm and cool hues—such as Endive + Fuchsia Purple and Flame + Blue Atoll—targeting active consumers and reinforcing Nalgene’s reputation built over 75 years of durability and reusability. Each bottle, priced at an MSRP of $16.99, is produced in the United States, is dishwasher safe and expands Nalgene’s total addressable market in outdoor retail channels by an estimated 5%, supporting Thermo Fisher’s strategy to diversify revenue streams beyond its core laboratory and life sciences businesses.