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TandAbs: potent and well-manufacturable bi-specific antibodies for immunooncology

10 March 2015 | By Michael Weichel, Kristina Ellwanger, Ivica Fucek, Stefan H.J. Knackmuss, Erich Rajkovic, Uwe Reusch, Claudia Wall, and Eugene A. Zhukovsky, Affimed Therapeutics AG

The bi-specific antibody format is becoming the preferred antibody modality for current development projects in the pharmaceutical industry. This is due to an unsurpassed increase in functional activity relative to traditional mono-specific monoclonal antibodies, and a breakthrough in manufacturability enabled by novel designs. One such bi-specific format, the TandAb, produces…

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Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADC)

19 February 2014 | By Paul Wituschek, Vice President of Sales, Development and Clinical Services, Catalent

Paul Wituschek, Vice President of Sales, Development and Clinical Services, Catalent answers the question: "Other than oncology, for which disease areas do you see Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADC) being used extensively in the future?"

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Gene to drugs: can expression be the key to new discoveries?

25 February 2013 | By Esther P. Black, College of Pharmacy and Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky

Cancer treatment faces a conundrum: a growing lack of therapeutics with lasting effects. The low hanging fruit of the medicinal chemistry orchard seems to have been picked, and modification of existing anti-cancer therapeutics has produced only incremental rewards[1]. Thus, both pharmaceutical companies and academic researchers are left searching for new…