Cepheid Inc

Cepheid Inc (NASDAQ: CPHD) is an American molecular diagnostics company that develops, manufactures and markets fully integrated systems for testing in the clinical market, and for application in its original non-clinical market. The company’s systems enable rapid, sophisticated molecular testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases by automating otherwise complex manual laboratory procedures. It was the winner of 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Awards for its product, Reagent Bead Dispenser. It won the federal contract by "MRSA Reagent Test Kits" in 2012. One of the company's customer is U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).