Empowering us all to make better healthcare decisions.

At Cepheid, our mission is to enable medical providers to identify and treat diseases early, increasing opportunities to improve patients’ survival and quality of life. 

We are a molecular diagnostics company dedicated to improving healthcare by developing, manufacturing and marketing accurate yet easy-to-use molecular systems and tests. By automating highly complex and time-consuming manual procedures, the company's solutions deliver a better way for institutions of any size to perform sophisticated genetic testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases. Through its strong molecular biology capabilities, the company is focusing on applications where accurate, rapid and actionable test results are needed most, such as managing infectious diseases and cancer.