Mr. Peer Schatz, CEO of QIAGEN N.V.,
Rings The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

Thursday, June 29, 2006
at NASDAQ's MarketSite
in New York City.

QIAGEN N.V. [QGEN]

Mr. Peer Schatz, CEO of QIAGEN N.V. (QGEN) presides over the opening bell to celebrate its 10 year listing anniversary on the NASDAQ.

QIAGEN is a leading provider of innovative technologies and products for pre-analytical sample preparation and molecular diagnostics solutions. QIAGEN has developed a comprehensive portfolio of more than 500 proprietary, consumable products and automated solutions for sample collection, and nucleic acid and protein handling, separation, and purification. QIAGEN also supplies diagnostic kits, tests, and assays for human and veterinary molecular diagnostics. The company's products are sold in more than 42 countries around the world to academic research markets, and to leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as to diagnostics laboratories. QIAGEN also provides purification and testing solutions to applied testing markets, such as forensics, animal or food testing, and pharmaceutical process control.

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