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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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Next generation antibody therapeutics: Antibody fragments, dual-targeting strategies, and beyond…

9 October 2009 | By Dr Martin Scott, Molecular Cell Biologist, Biopharm R&D, GlaxoSmithKline and Dr Neil Clarke, Molecular Cell Biologist and Biology Section Leader, Biopharm R&D, GlaxoSmithKline

A multitude of novel therapeutic antibody formats based on modification of the conventional IgG format have arisen in recent years. The intensification of interest in this area reflects a pressing need for an additional repertoire of therapeutic molecules which retain the exquisite binding specificity and low intrinsic toxicity of monoclonal…