Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> September 30, 1999
METIN COLPAN, Ph.D. is a co-founder of Qiagen and has been Chief
Executive Officer since 1985. Dr. Colpan obtained his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in
Organic Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the Darmstadt Institute
of Technology in 1983. Prior to founding QIAGEN, Dr. Colpan was an
Assistant Investigator at the Institute for Biophysics at the University
of D'sseldorf. Dr. Colpan has had wide experience in separation
techniques and in the separation and purification of nucleic acids in
particular, and has filed many patents in the field. Profile
Dr. Colpan: The company was founded in 1984/1985 in Germany. It is a
typical venture capital-financed start up, one of the
