TRBN Trubion Pharmaceuticals (MM)

SEATTLE, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRBN), today announced that Dr. Peter A. Thompson, president, CEO and chairman, will present an overview of the company at the Bank of America 2008 Specialty Pharmaceuticals Conference on Thursday, Aug. 7 at 8:45 a.m. This conference will be held at the Southampton Inn in Long Island, N.Y. The presentation will be available via audio webcast at http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/bas/specpharma08/id72102172.cfm and will be available in the investors section of Trubion's Web site, http://investors.trubion.com/. About Trubion Trubion is a biopharmaceutical company that is creating a pipeline of novel protein therapeutic product candidates to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and cancer. The company's mission is to develop a variety of first-in-class and best-in-class product candidates, customized for optimal safety, efficacy and convenience that it believes may offer improved patient experiences. Trubion's current product candidates are novel single-chain protein, or SMIP(TM), therapeutics, and are designed using its custom drug assembly technology. Trubion's product pipeline includes CD20-directed candidates such as TRU-015 and SBI-087 for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, developed under the company's Wyeth collaboration. Trubion's product pipeline also includes Trubion's proprietary product candidate, TRU-016, a novel CD37-targeted therapy for the treatment of B-cell malignancies that is currently in Phase 1/2 clinical evaluation. In addition to Trubion's current product candidates, the company is also developing additional alliance and proprietary product candidates that build on its product development experience. More information is available in the investors section of Trubion's website: investors.trubion.com. TRBN-G DATASOURCE: Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CONTACT: Jim DeNike, Senior Director, Corporate Communication of Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., +1-206-838-0500, ; or Amy Petty, Senior Account Executive of Waggener Edstrom Worldwide Healthcare, +1-617-576-5788, , for Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Web site: http://investors.trubion.com/

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