SEATTLE, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRBN), today announced it will present a corporate update at the upcoming 8th Annual BIO Investor Forum to be held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Dr. Peter Thompson, FACP, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors, is scheduled to present in the Pacific Heights room on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 1:30 p.m. PDT. The presentation will be available via audio webcast at http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/confLobby.zhtml?ticker=TRBN&item_id=2478554.

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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, therapeutics, and are designed using its custom drug assembly technology. Trubion's product pipeline includes CD20-directed SMIP therapeutics such as TRU-015 and SBI-087 for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, developed under the Company's Pfizer collaboration. Trubion's product pipeline also includes TRU-016, a novel CD37-targeted therapy for the treatment of B-cell malignancies developed under the company's Facet Biotech collaboration. In addition to Trubion's current clinical stage product pipeline, the Company is also developing its multi-specific SCORPION technology, both for targeting cell-surface molecules like CD79b and HLA-DR, as well simultaneously neutralizing soluble ligands like TNF and IL-6. More information is available in the investors section of Trubion's website: http://investors.trubion.com/index.cfm.

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    Contact:
    Jim DeNike
    Senior Director, Corporate Communications
    Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    (206) 838-0500
    jdenike@trubion.com
    http://www.trubion.com

    Waggener Edstrom Worldwide Healthcare
    Amy Petty
    Senior Account Executive
    (617) 576-5788
    amyp@waggeneredstrom.com

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