TNOX Tanox (MM)

HOUSTON, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tanox, Inc. (NASDAQ:TNOX) will announce its 2005 fourth quarter and full year financial results Feb. 28, 2006. The announcement will be made before the opening of the financial markets, with a conference call for the investment community to follow at 10 a.m., EST. Tanox President and Chief Executive Officer Danong Chen, Ph.D. and Vice President of Finance Greg Guidroz will outline results of the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2005, provide an update on the company's operations and outline 2006 objectives. Live audio of the conference call will be webcast on the Internet. The webcast will be accessible on the Tanox Web site at http://www.tanox.com/ in the Investor Relations section. About Tanox, Inc. Tanox is a biotechnology company specializing in the discovery and development of monoclonal antibodies. The company develops innovative biotherapeutics for the treatment of immune-mediated diseases, inflammation, infectious disease and cancer. Tanox's lead investigational therapy, TNX-355, is a viral-entry inhibitor antibody to treat HIV/AIDS. TNX-355 has shown significant antiretroviral activity in Phase 2 clinical testing. Tanox's first-approved drug, Xolair(R) (omalizumab), is the first antibody approved to treat moderate-to-severe confirmed allergic asthma. Xolair was developed in collaboration with Genentech, Inc. and Novartis Pharma AG and is approved for marketing in the United States, Canada and major European countries. Tanox is based in Houston and has a manufacturing facility in San Diego. Additional corporate information is available at http://www.tanox.com/. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050207/TNOXLOGO DATASOURCE: Tanox, Inc. CONTACT: Steve Sievert of Tanox, Inc., +1-713-578-4211, Web site: http://www.tanox.com/

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