Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> December 18, 2000

Metin Colpan – Qiagen Nv (qgen:easdaq)

DR METIN COLPAN is a Co-founder of the Company and has been Chief Executive Officer since 1985. Dr Colpan obtained his PhD and MSc in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the Darmstadt Institute of Technology in 1983. Prior to founding QIAGEN, Dr Colpan was an Assistant Investigator at the Institute for Biophysics at the University of Dusseldorf. Dr Colpan has had wide experience in separation techniques and in the separation and purification of nucleic acids in particular, and has filed many patents in the field. Profile
TWST: Can we start with a brief overview of QIAGEN.

Dr. Colpan: QIAGEN is today the leading provider of an enabling

technology for purification, handling, and manipulation of DNA and RNA,

the