San Diego & HILDEN, Germany & GERMAN TOWN, Md – (BUSINESS WIRE) — QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN) (Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) and Verogen today announced a partnership to provide laboratories with superior tools and comprehensive support for implementing next-generation sequencing (NGS) human identification workflows.
The partnership with QIAGEN is a milestone-driven distribution and development agreement that grants QIAGEN rights to globally distribute both current and future Verogen products. Verogen and QIAGEN will also cooperate to commercialize Verogen’s forensically validated NGS workflows with QIAGEN’s sample prep automation to provide full sample to ID solutions for human identification laboratories.
“Our mission is to empower the human identification community with innovative tools that can deliver an identification, not just a DNA profile,” said Brett Williams, Chief Executive Officer at Verogen. “This partnership with QIAGEN will make it easier for the laboratories to provide more impactful answers. By combining Verogen’s industry-leading NGS-based product portfolio with QIAGEN’s gold-standard extraction, assay and automation solutions, we can accelerate adoption and utilization of NGS in forensic operations”. “This combination brings together Verogen’s innovative NGS workflows with QIAGEN’s leading portfolio of Sample to Insight solutions, creating the most comprehensive product offering for forensics applications”, said Thierry Bernard, Chief Executive Officer at QIAGEN. “ The partnership will drive the adoption of NGS in human identification, enable customers to gain even greater insights from their casework samples, and ultimately strengthen global justice.”
Verogen’s turnkey solutions for human identification laboratories combines industry-leading NGS sequencing instrumentation, proprietary library prep reagents, and sequencing consumables with sophisticated application-specific software. Through this partnership, QIAGEN will optimize its market-leading sample extraction and library prep automation capabilities for the Verogen ForenSeq library prep kits, thereby enhancing both companies’ channel reach and presence to support the forensic market.
About Verogen
Verogen is a dedicated developer of DNA-based biometric human identification products for analysis of forensic genomic samples. Working closely with the forensic community, Verogen places exceptional value on flexible, scalable solutions that deliver reliable results. To learn more, visit www.verogen.com .
About QIAGEN
QIAGEN N.V., a Netherlands-based holding company, is the leading global provider of Sample to Insight solutions that enable customers to gain valuable molecular insights from samples containing the building blocks of life. QIAGEN provides solutions to more than 500,000 customers around the world in Molecular Diagnostics (human healthcare) and Life Sciences (academia, pharma R&D and industrial applications, primarily forensics). Further information can be found at http://www.qiagen.com.
Verogen Contacts
Kim Mohr
Insight Communications
949-322-3733
QIAGEN contacts
John Gilardi
Vice President Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
+49 2103 29 11711 and +1 240 686 2222
Phoebe Loh
Associate Director Investor Relations
+49 2103 29 11457
Dr. Thomas Theuringer
Head of External Communications
+49 2103 29 11826 and +1 240 686 7425
