Lab Equipment & ReagentsFounded 1984
Qiagen
Venlo / Hilden, Limburg, Netherlands / North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Netherlands / Germany
Supplier of sample and assay technologies for nucleic-acid (DNA/RNA) extraction, PCR and NGS-related reagents and kits, serving molecular biology, clinical diagnostics and applied testing labs.
- Segment
- Lab Equipment & Reagents
- Headquarters
- Venlo / Hilden, Limburg, Netherlands / North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Netherlands / Germany
- Founded
- 1984
- Website
- www.qiagen.com
Notable facts
- Founded November 29, 1984 by scientists at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, including Metin Colpan, Karsten Henco and Jürgen Schumacher, building on Colpan's resin-based DNA extraction research; described as the first venture-capital-backed German company.
- Maintains a dual headquarters structure: the QIAGEN N.V. group holding company is registered in Venlo, the Netherlands, while the main operative headquarters is in Hilden, Germany.
Sources. This profile is compiled from public reference data, WebSearch-verified against source 1 · source 2. Data as of 2026-07-14. See methodology.
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