BOTHELL, Wash. (Business Wire) -- Seattle Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) announced today that management will present at three investor conferences in September. The presentations will be webcast live and available for replay from Seattle Genetics' website at www.seattlegenetics.com in the Investors and News section.

Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare Conference

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 10:20 a.m. Eastern time (ET)

ThinkEquity 9th Annual Growth Conference

Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. ET

UBS Global Life Sciences Conference

Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 9:30 a.m. ET

About Seattle Genetics

Seattle Genetics is a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of monoclonal antibody-based therapies for the treatment of cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval of ADCETRIS in August 2011 for two indications. ADCETRIS is being developed in collaboration with Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company. In addition, Seattle Genetics has three other clinical-stage antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) programs: SGN-75, ASG-5ME and ASG-22ME. Seattle Genetics has collaborations for its ADC technology with a number of leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, including Abbott, Agensys (an affiliate of Astellas), Bayer, Celldex Therapeutics, Daiichi Sankyo, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Millennium, Pfizer and Progenics, as well as ADC co-development agreements with Agensys and Genmab. More information can be found at www.seattlegenetics.com.

Seattle Genetics, Inc.
Peggy Pinkston, 425-527-4160
ppinkston@seagen.com