Roche Holding AG

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2021 virtual meeting. My name is Henrik and I'm the technical operator for today's call. Kindly note that the webinar is being recorded. I would like to inform you that all participants are in listen-only mode during the call. After the presentation, there will be a question and answer session. You are invited to send in questions for this throughout the entire session using the Q&A functionality of Zoom. In addition to that, you may also raise your virtual hand to address your questions verbally. For participants joining via phone, to raise your hand, use star nine on your phone's dial pad. When you then get selected to ask your questions, please follow the instructions from the phone and press star six to unmute yourself. At this time, it's my pleasure to introduce you to Karl Mahler, Head of Investor Relations and Group Planning. Karl, the stage is yours.

Yeah, thanks a lot, Henrik, for the kind introduction. Welcome to our Q2 call. Hope you're all safe and well. Actually, we have a new setup here. We are all in one room, which is really exciting, I have to say. Hopefully the times of Zoom are now behind us, but we have social distancing in that sense, so it's all checked. But it's really exciting to be here with the colleagues and to see how they're doing. If you have difficulties to ask questions via the Zoom setup, of course, you can also drop me an email, carl.mahler at roche.com. And for the Q&A session later on, maybe we can limit the questions per person to two. We also try to be short and crisp in our answers so that we, let's say, maximize the time later on also for that part. Personally, I think we had really an excellent first half. Product performance in new products was excellent. Diagnostic basis underlying was excellent. And tomorrow we will have some road shows where we can again connect in the U.K.,