Trubion Pharmaceuticals Inc. Announces Acceptance of Two Presentations on Its TRU-016 Product Candidate at the 2009 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting
SEATTLE, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today the acceptance of two data presentations on its product candidate, TRU-016, at the 2009 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting Dec. 5-8, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The presentations will include additional positive data from 1) an ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of TRU-016 for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and 2) a preclinical study demonstrating the effect of Trubion's Tru-ADhanCe(TM) technology in promoting enhanced natural killer cell mediated cytotoxicity against primary CLL cells. TRU-016 is Trubion's novel CD37-targeted therapy for the treatment of B-cell malignancies and is being developed in collaboration with Facet Biotech Corporation.
Presentation 3424: A Phase 1 Trial of TRU-016, An Anti-CD37 Small Modular Immunopharmaceutical (SMIP(TM)) Protein in Relapsed and Refractory CLL: Early Promising Clinical Activity
Presentation 1744: Glycovariant CD37 Small Modular Immunopharmaceutical (Tru-ADhanCe(TM) SMIP) Promotes Enhanced Natural Killer Cell Mediated Cytotoxicity against Primary CLL Cells
Copies of the TRU-016 abstracts are now available on ASH's website at http://www.hematology.org or Trubion's website at http://investors.trubion.com/events.cfm. Copies of the full data presentations will be available on Trubion's website after the data is presented at the 2009 ASH Annual Meeting.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933. These statements include, but are not limited to, those related to the potential development and commercialization of TRU-016. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions regarding future events and business performance and involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These risks include, but are not limited to, risks associated with the company's ability to develop TRU-016 with Facet and such other risks as are identified in the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended Sept. 30, 2009, and from time to time in other reports filed by Trubion with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These reports are available on the Investors page of the company's corporate website at http://www.trubion.com. Trubion undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual results or changes in the Company's expectations.
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CONTACT: Jim DeNike, Senior Director, Corporate Communications of Trubion
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., +1-206-838-0500, jdenike@trubion.com; or Amy Petty,
Senior Account Executive of Waggener Edstrom Worldwide Healthcare,
+1-617-576-5788, amyp@waggeneredstrom.com, for Trubion Pharmaceuticals,
Inc.
Web site: http://www.trubion.com/