Galapagos NV Enters into Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. to Further Expand Its Decentralized CAR-T Manufacturing Network in the U.S

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of laboratory and scientific equipments. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by family of products as follows: - laboratory equipments (70%). Moreover, the group proposes chemical products (reagents, solvent, salts, etc.), consumable products (tubes, funnels, vials, etc.), as well as conditioning, warehousing, storage, etc.; - diagnostics equipment and products (15.3%); - scientific analysis equipments (14.7%): analyzer (of water, gas, grounds, etc.), mass spectrometers, molecular spectroscopes, microscopes, manometers, samplers, microbiology equipments, reactive agents, etc. Net sales break down by source of income into products sales (78.5%) and services (21.5%). Net sales break down geographically as follows: North America (53%), Europe (25.7%), Asia-Pacific (18.1%) and others (3.2%).