SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cepheid will participate in the Innovation In In Vitro Diagnostics Panel at the RBC Capital Markets 2007 Healthcare Conference on December 12 at 2:30 p.m. ET at The Westin New York at Times Square. John R. Sluis, Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer and Robert J. Koska, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Operations, will introduce Cepheid and take part in the panel discussion.
A webcast of the discussion will be available on Cepheid's Web site at http://www.cepheid.com under Investors: Events: Webcasts and Presentations. A replay of the webcast presentation will be available for 30 days.
About Cepheid
Cepheid , based in Sunnyvale, California, is a molecular diagnostics company that develops, manufactures, and markets fully-integrated systems for genetic analysis in the clinical, industrial and biothreat markets. The company's systems enable rapid, sophisticated genetic testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases by automating otherwise complex manual laboratory procedures. The company's easy-to-use systems integrate a number of complicated and time-intensive steps, including sample preparation, DNA amplification and detection, which enable the analysis of complex biological samples in its proprietary test cartridges. Through its strong molecular biology capabilities, the company is focusing on those applications where rapid molecular testing is particularly important, such as identifying infectious disease and cancer in the clinical market; food, agricultural, and environmental testing in the industrial market; and identifying bio-terrorism agents in the biothreat market. See http://www.cepheid.com for more information.
CONTACT: John L. Bishop, CEO, john.bishop@cepheid.com, or John R. Sluis,
CFO, john.sluis@cepheid.com, both of Cepheid, +1-408-541-4191; or media,
Schwartz Communications, +1-781-684-0770, cepheid@schwartz-pr.com; or
investors, Porter Novelli, +1-619-849-6005, jspark@pnlifesciences.com, both
for Cepheid
Web site: http://www.cepheid.com/
