Abaxis, Inc. To Present At The SunTrust Robinson Humphrey’s 35th Annual Institutional Investor Conference

UNION CITY, Calif., April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abaxis, Inc. , a medical products company manufacturing point-of-care blood analysis systems, announced today that Clint Severson, Chief Executive Officer, will present at the SunTrust Robinson Humphrey’s 35th Annual Institutional Investor Conference on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 3:20 p.m. Eastern at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia.

Interested investors are invited to listen to a live audio webcast of the Company’s presentation by logging onto http://wsw.com/webcast/strh16/abax/. Replays will be available starting approximately ten minutes after the initial presentation and will remain accessible for 30 days.

About Abaxis

Abaxis develops, manufactures and markets portable blood analysis systems for use in any veterinary or human patient-care setting to provide clinicians with rapid blood constituent measurements. The system consists of a compact, 6.9 kilogram (15 pounds), portable analyzer and a series of single-use plastic discs, called reagent discs that contain all the chemicals required to perform a panel of up to 13 tests on veterinary patients and 14 tests on human patients. The system can be operated with minimal training and performs multiple routine tests on whole blood, serum or plasma samples. The system provides test results in less than 14 minutes with the precision and accuracy equivalent to a clinical laboratory analyzer.

Contact: Clint Severson Lytham Partners, LLC Chief Executive Officer Joe Dorame, Joe Diaz, Robert Blum ABAXIS, Inc. 602-889-9700 510-675-6500

Abaxis, Inc.

CONTACT: Clint Severson, Chief Executive Officer of ABAXIS, Inc.,+1-510-675-6500; or Joe Dorame, Joe Diaz, or Robert Blum, all of LythamPartners, LLC, +1-602-889-9700, for Abaxis, Inc.

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