• Expands specialty diagnostics portfolio with attractive molecular diagnostics capabilities, including infectious disease testing • Complements leading life sciences offering with innovative sample preparation, assay and bioinformatics technologies • Creates significant value and is expected to be immediately accretive to adjusted earnings per share after close WALTHAM, Mass. and VENLO, The Netherlands – March 3, 2020 – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, and QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA), a leading global provider of molecular diagnostics and sample preparation technologies, today announced that their boards of directors, as well as the managing board of QIAGEN N.V., have unanimously approved Thermo Fisher’s proposal to acquire QIAGEN for €39 per share in cash. The offer price represents a premium of approximately 23% to the closing price of QIAGEN’s common stock on the Frankfurt Prime Standard on Ma...