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Peer M. Schatz is CEO of Qiagen, a supplier of life science research tools and employer of 1,400 people in 12 countries. Schatz has a Master's degree in finance from the University of St. Gall, Switzerland, and an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
In many ways the laboratory tools we use today may remind us of computers in the late 1970s. In those days, systems were mostly incompatible and were dedicated to specific tasks. When the first personal computers emerged, these systems were integrated: "Cut and paste" became ubiquitous, and it became possible to share and compare data over multiple and geographically dispersed platforms. A main driver for development was the standardization of the interfaces and communication protocols were standardized. The more complex and interrelated the applications, the more important ...
