EXHIBIT 3.1

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT 

TO THE 

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION 

OF 

ACCELERATE DIAGNOSTICS, INC.

Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “Corporation”), hereby certifies as follows:

FIRST: That the following resolutions were duly adopted by the Corporation’s Board of Directors, in accordance with the Corporation’s Bylaws and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, setting forth a proposed amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation as follows:

RESOLVED, that the Certificate of Incorporation be amended by deleting the current text of the first paragraph of Article IV (Capital Stock) in its entirety and replacing it with the following text (the “Amendment”):

“The Corporation shall be authorized to issue two classes of shares of capital stock, to be designated, respectively, “Common Stock” and “Preferred Stock.” The total number of shares of Common Stock and Preferred Stock that the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is four hundred fifty-five million (455,000,000), of which four hundred fifty million (450,000,000) shares shall be Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, and five million (5,000,000) shares shall be Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share.”

FURTHER RESOLVED, any officer of the Corporation is authorized and directed to execute and file the Amendment with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and to take such further actions and execute such additional documents and make such additional filings as such officer shall determine to be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the foregoing resolutions.

FURTHER RESOLVED, that all actions heretofore taken by the officers, directors, or agents of the Corporation relating to the foregoing resolutions, be, and hereby are, approved, adopted, ratified, and confirmed in all respects.

SECOND: The foregoing Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation was duly adopted by the Corporation’s Board of Directors in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

THIRD: The foregoing Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation was duly approved by the Corporation’s stockholders.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by the undersigned duly authorized officer who declares under penalty of perjury that the matters set forth in the foregoing Certificate of Amendment are true and correct to his knowledge.

Dated: May 23, 2023

ACCELERATE DIAGNOSTICS, INC.
By:	/s/ David Patience
Name:	David Patience
Title:	Chief Financial Officer