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<HR SIZE="3" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="4"><B>UNITED STATES </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="4"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="3"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>FORM 8-K </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>CURRENT REPORT </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or 15(d) of the </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Securities Exchange Act of 1934 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Date
of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February&nbsp;27, 2006 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><B>CERUS CORPORATION </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>(State of jurisdiction)</B></FONT></TD>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>2411 Stanwell Drive </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Concord, California 94520 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>(Address of principal executive offices and zip
code) </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Registrant&#146;s telephone number, including area code: (925)&nbsp;288-6000 </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following
provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below): </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Soliciting material pursuant to Rule&nbsp;14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule&nbsp;14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b)) </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Other Events. </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">On February&nbsp;27, 2006, Cerus
Corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;) announced plans to offer 4,500,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering. The offering will be made pursuant to the Company&#146;s effective shelf registration statement previously filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company intends to grant the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 675,000 shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. All of such shares are being offered by the
Company. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Robert W. Baird&nbsp;&amp; Co. Incorporated and JMP Securities LLC will act as co-lead managers of the offering. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Company&#146;s press release, dated February&nbsp;27, 2006, entitled
&#147;Cerus Corporation Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock,&#148; a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements. For this purpose, any statements contained in this press release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed forward-looking statements,
including, without limitation, statements regarding the Company&#146;s plans to complete a public offering. Words such as &#147;anticipate,&#148; &#147;believe,&#148; &#147;estimate,&#148; &#147;expect,&#148; &#147;intend,&#148; &#147;plan,&#148;
&#147;predict&#148; and similar words or expressions or the negative of these words or expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements as a result of
certain factors, including, without limitation, risks and uncertainties related to investor response to the public offering, the trading prices for the company&#146;s common stock, other conditions in the financial markets, satisfaction of closing
conditions related to the public offering, as well as other risks detailed in the Company&#146;s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31,
2005. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new
information, future events, changed assumptions or otherwise. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:18px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Press Release, dated February&nbsp;27, 2006, entitled &#147;Cerus Corporation Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock.&#148;</FONT></TD></TR>
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FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized. </FONT></P> <P
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/ William J. Dawson</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Exhibit 99.1 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center">

<IMG SRC="g42590image001.jpg" ALT="LOGO"> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Contact: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Ruey-Li Hwang
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Corporate Communications </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Cerus Corporation </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(925) 288-6017 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>CERUS CORPORATION ANNOUNCES PROPOSED </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>PUBLIC OFFERING OF COMMON STOCK
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CONCORD, CA, February&nbsp;27, 2006 - Cerus Corporation (NASDAQ: CERS) today announced plans to offer 4,500,000 shares of its common
stock in an underwritten public offering. The offering will be made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement that was previously filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Cerus Corporation intends to grant the underwriters
an option to purchase up to an additional 675,000 shares to cover over-allotments, if any. All of such shares are being offered by Cerus Corporation. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The offering will be marketed by Robert W. Baird&nbsp;&amp; Co. Incorporated, who will act as book-running and co-lead manager of the offering, and JMP Securities LLC, who will act as co-lead manager of the offering.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities nor shall there be any
sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus supplement
and accompanying prospectus, a copy of which may be obtained from the offices of Robert W. Baird&nbsp;&amp; Co. Incorporated, 777 East Wisconsin Avenue, 28</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><SUP>th</SUP></FONT><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"> Floor, Milwaukee, WI 53202-5391 or JMP Securities LLC, 600 Montgomery Street, Suite 1100, San Francisco, CA 94111. An electronic copy of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus will be
available on the Securities and Exchange Commission&#146;s website at www.sec.gov. </FONT></P>

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Corporation is developing and commercializing novel, proprietary products and technologies within the fields of immunotherapy and blood safety that are intended to provide safer, more effective medical options to patients in areas of substantial
unmet medical needs. In the field of immunotherapy, the company is employing its proprietary attenuated Listeria vaccine platform to develop a series of novel therapies to treat cancer, and it is applying its proprietary Killed But Metabolically
Active technology platform in research and development of prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for infectious diseases. In the field of blood safety, the company is developing and commercializing the INTERCEPT Blood System, which is based on the
company&#146;s proprietary Helinx technology and is designed to enhance the safety of blood components by inactivating viruses, bacteria, parasites and other pathogens, as well as potentially harmful white blood cells. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">INTERCEPT and INTERCEPT Blood System are trademarks of Cerus Corporation. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>This press release contains forward-looking statements. For this purpose, any statements contained in this press release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed forward-looking statements,
including, without limitation, statements regarding the company&#146;s plans to complete a public offering. Words such as &#147;anticipate,&#148; &#147;believe,&#148; &#147;estimate,&#148; &#147;expect,&#148; &#147;intend,&#148; &#147;plan,&#148;
&#147;predict&#148; and similar words or expressions or the negative of these words or expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements as a result of
certain factors, including, without limitation, risks and uncertainties related to investor response to the public offering, the trading prices for the company&#146;s common stock, other conditions in the financial markets, satisfaction of closing
conditions related to the public offering, as well as other risks detailed in the company&#146;s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the company&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31,
2005. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new
information, future events, changed assumptions or otherwise. </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">### </FONT></P>
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