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Published Date: Feb. 21, 2003
Company Name: Cerus Corporation
Address: 2411 Stanwell Dr.
Concord, CA 94520
USA
Main Telephone
Number: 925/288-6000
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.cerus.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Stephen T. Isaacs
Chief Financial
Officer: Gregory W. Schafer
Investor Relations
Contact: Sylvia R. Wheeler
Business number: 925/288-6061
E-mail address: sylvia_wheeler@cerus.com
Public Relations
Contact: Sylvia R. Wheeler
Industry: Healthcare; Biotech
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: CERS
Company Description: Cerus Corporation is building on its leading position in the biopharmaceutical industry by developing medical systems and therapeutics therapeutics Treatment and care to combat disease or alleviate pain or injury. Its tools include drugs, surgery, radiation therapy, mechanical devices, diet, and psychiatry. to provide safer and more effective options to patients. The company is developing products based on its proprietary Helinx(R) technology for controlling biological replication In database management, the ability to keep distributed databases synchronized by routinely copying the entire database or subsets of the database to other servers in the network. There are various replication methods. . Cerus' most advanced programs are focused on systems to enhance the safety of the world's blood supply. The INTERCEPT intercept in mathematical terms the points at which a curve cuts the two axes of a graph. Blood System, based on the company's Helinx technology, is designed to inactivate in·ac·ti·vate v. 1. To render nonfunctional. 2. To make quiescent. in·ac  ti·va viruses,
bacteria, other pathogens and white blood cells White blood cellsA group of several cell types that occur in the bloodstream and are essential for a properly functioning immune system. Mentioned in: Abscess Incision & Drainage, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Complement Deficiencies . The Concord Concord, cities, United States Concord (kŏng`kərd, kŏn`kôrd'). 1 city (1990 pop. 111,348), Contra Costa co., W central Calif.; settled c.1852, inc. 1906. , California-based company also is pursuing therapeutic applications of Helinx technology to treat and prevent serious diseases. |
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