Qiagen N.V.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. I am Kyle, your PGI call operator. Welcome and thank you for joining QIAGEN's second quarter 2022 earnings conference call webcast. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Please be advised that this call is being recorded at QIAGEN's request and will be made available on their internet site. This preparing mark will be followed by a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, you may press star followed by one on your touchstone telephone. Please press the star key followed by zero for operator assistance. At this time, I would like to introduce your host, John Gilardi, Vice President, Head of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations at Cajun. Please go ahead, sir.

So, thank you very much, operator, and welcome to our call. The speakers today are Terry Bernard, our Chief Executive Officer, and Roland Sackers, our Chief Financial Officer. Also joining us is Phoebe Lowe from the Investor Relations team. Please note that this call is being webcast live and will be archived on the investor section of our website at www.kaizen.com. Today we will first have some remarks from Terry and Roland and then move into the Q&A session. A presentation with details on our performance is available on the IR section of our website along with the quarterly release. We will not be showing the slides during the call. Before we begin, let me cover as usual our safe harbor statement. This conference call discussion and responses to your question reflects the views of management as of today, July 28, 2022. We will be making statements and providing responses to your questions that state our intentions, beliefs, expectations, or predictions of the future. These constitute forward-looking statements for the purpose of the safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. QIGEN disclaims any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements. For more information, please refer to our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which are also available on our website. We will also be referring to certain financial measures not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP. All references to EPS refer to diluted EPS. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures is available in our press release for the second quarter. as well as in the presentation for this call that are both available on our website. I would like to now turn over the call to Terry.

Terry, please unmute your line.