SAN DIEGO - (Business Wire) Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) announced today that the company will webcast its presentation at the Piper Jaffray “Unplugged” Health Care Conference in New York, New York, on December 2, 2009. The live webcast is scheduled to begin at 11:00a.m. ET and will feature a brief overview of the company by Christian Henry, chief financial officer and senior vice president of Corporate Development, followed by a question and answer session. The live webcast can be accessed under the "Corporate/Investor Information" tab of Illumina's web site at www.illumina.com.
About Illumina
Illumina (www.illumina.com) is the leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of next-generation life-science tools and integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation and biological function. Using our proprietary technologies, we provide a comprehensive line of products and services that currently serve the sequencing, genotyping, and gene expression markets, and we expect to enter the market for molecular diagnostics. Our customers include leading genomic research centers, pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, clinical research organizations, and biotechnology companies. Our tools provide researchers around the world with the performance, throughput, cost effectiveness, and flexibility necessary to perform the billions of genetic tests needed to extract valuable medical information from advances in genomics and proteomics. We believe this information will enable researchers to correlate genetic variation and biological function, which will enhance drug discovery and clinical research, allow diseases to be detected earlier, and permit better choices of drugs for individual patients.
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