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SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced that its executives will be speaking at the following investor conferences, and invited investors to participate via webcast.

    Bank of America and Merrill Lynch Health Care Conference, New York, NY
    Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 10.40 a.m. Eastern Time

    Deutsche Bank Health Care Conference, Boston, MA
    Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 8.50 a.m. Eastern Time

    JMP Securities Research Conference, San Francisco, CA
    Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 1.30 p.m. Pacific Time

    William Blair Growth Conference, Chicago, IL
    Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 1.20 p.m. Central Time

    Needham Life Sciences Conference, New York, NY
    Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 9.00 a.m. Eastern Time

Accessing Webcasts

To access the live webcasts for these events, please visit Cepheid's website at www.cepheid.com/investors at least 15 minutes before the schedule start time to download any necessary audio or plug-in software. A replay of the webcast will be available shortly following the presentation and will remain available for at least 90 days.

About Cepheid

Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD), based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is an on-demand molecular diagnostics company that develops, manufactures, and markets fully-integrated systems and tests 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. Cepheid's easy-to-use systems integrate a number
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