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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
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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): March&nbsp;30, 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
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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"
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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 March&nbsp;30, 2006, Cerus
Corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;) announced the closing of its public offering of 5,175,000 shares of the Company&#146;s common stock. A copy of the Company&#146;s press release dated March&nbsp;30, 2006, is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Press Release, dated March&nbsp;30, 2006, entitled &#147;Cerus Corporation Announces Closing of Follow-On Equity Offering.&#148;</FONT></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="g41096img1.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"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Corporate Communications </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Cerus Corporation </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(925) 288-6017 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>CERUS CORPORATION ANNOUNCES
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>CLOSING OF FOLLOW-ON EQUITY OFFERING </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CONCORD, CA, March&nbsp;30, 2006 - Cerus Corporation (NASDAQ: CERS) today announced the closing of a follow-on equity offering in which Cerus sold a total of 5,175,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price
of $8.75 per share. The public offering consisted of 4,500,000 shares of common stock and an over-allotment option, which was exercised in full, for an additional 675,000 shares. All the shares were offered and sold by Cerus Corporation under its
effective shelf registration statement. The net proceeds to Cerus Corporation from the offering were approximately $42.6 million. </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 acted as book-running and co-lead manager of the offering and JMP Securities LLC acted as co-lead manager of the offering. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2"><B>ABOUT CERUS </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Cerus 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 </FONT></P>

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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">donated blood components by inactivating viruses, bacteria, parasites and other pathogens, as well as potentially harmful white blood cells. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:12px;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:12px;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 related to the progress and results of the Company&#146;s research and development programs and the 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
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