Qiagen N.V. (NYSE:QGEN) is looking for bolt-on acquisitions. Roland Sackers said, "Nevertheless, we clearly also understand that there is a need for more consolidation in that market. And as you know, you can do that in 2 different directions.

You can develop it organically, but you also can acquire certain pieces. We are looking actually to do both. So we stepped up our investments into R&D activities.

At the same time, we clearly intensified our search for bolt-on acquisitions where we believe we can even build a stronger platform for our customers, having certain bioinformatics solutions out of one hand".