QIAGEN To Present At The JPMorgan 25th Annual Healthcare Conference

VENLO, The Netherlands, January 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- QIAGEN N.V. today announced that it will present at the JPMorgan 25th Annual Healthcare Conference at 10:30 a.m. PST on Monday, January 8, 2007. The conference is being held at Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, California.

Peer M. Schatz, QIAGEN’s Chief Executive Officer will provide an overview of the company, discuss QIAGEN’s business as well as recent developments and outline future opportunities. QIAGEN’s presentation will be webcasted live for investors and available for replay for a period of three months following the conference. The presentation can be accessed in the Investor Relations section at the Company’s web site at http://www.qiagen.com.

About QIAGEN:

QIAGEN N.V., a Netherlands holding company, 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 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.

QIAGEN employs more than 1,700 people worldwide. QIAGEN products are sold through a dedicated sales force and a global network of distributors in more than 40 countries.

Further information on QIAGEN can be found at www.qiagen.com.

Certain of the statements contained in this news release may be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. To the extent that any of the statements contained herein relating to QIAGEN’s products, markets, strategy or operating results are forward-looking, such statements are based on current expectations that involve a number of uncertainties and risks. Such uncertainties and risks include, but are not limited to, risks associated with management of growth and international operations (including the effects of currency fluctuations and risks of dependency on logistics), variability of operating results, the commercial development of the applied testing markets, clinical research markets and proteomics markets, nucleic acid-based molecular diagnostics market, and genetic vaccination and gene therapy markets, competition, rapid or unexpected changes in technologies, fluctuations in demand for QIAGEN’s, products (including fluctuations due to the level and timing of customers’ funding, budgets, and other factors), difficulties in successfully adapting QIAGEN’s products to integrated solutions and producing such products, the ability of QIAGEN to identify and develop new products and to differentiate its products from competitors’ products, market acceptance of QIAGEN’s new products and the integration of acquisitions of technologies and businesses. For further information, refer to the discussions in reports that QIAGEN has filed with, or furnished to, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Qiagen N.V.

CONTACT: Contacts: Peer M. Schatz, Chief Executive Officer, QIAGEN N.V.,e-mail: peer.schatz@QIAGEN.com; Dr. Solveigh Mahler, Director of InvestorRelations, QIAGEN N.V., e-mail: solveigh.maehler@QIAGEN.com, phone:+49-2103-2911-710

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