CERUS CORP — Director's Dealing 2016

Oct 3, 2016

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: CERUS CORP (CERS)
CIK: 0001020214
Period of Report: 2016-09-30

Reporting Person: Greenman William Mariner (Director, President and CEO)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2016-09-30	Common Stock	M	55000	$5.55	Acquired	298283	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2016-09-30	Option (Right to Buy)	$5.55	M	55000	Disposed	2016-10-01	Common Stock (55000)	Direct

Footnotes

F1: Includes shares purchased pursuant to a qualified Employee Stock Purchase Plan on 2/27/2015 of 3,352 shares, on 8/31/2015 of 3,245 shares, on 2/29/2016 of 5,486 shares and on 8/31/2016 of 105 shares. Also includes 21,800 shares purchased on 11/10/2014 and reported on a Form 4 filed on 11/12/2014.

F2: One eighth (1/8th) of the shares subject to the Option vested six (6) months after the grant date, and one forty-eighth (1/48th) of the shares subject to the Option vested on the first day of each month thereafter.

F3: Not applicable.