Antibody technology Archives

News and Trends 6 Jul 2015

ElsaLys Biotech grabs MABLife’s dual-acting antibody to treat cancer

French ElsaLys Biotech just acquired MABLife’s anti-CD160 antibody. Originally developed for the treatment of vascular eye diseases, the antibody also has the potential to be applied for tumor therapy. It…

July 6, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 16 Jun 2015

Novartis Uses Antibodies from Cured Patients to Fight Viruses

Novartis just paid the bill to Humabs to use its out-licensed drug candidate in a Phase II clinical trial. This monoclonal antibody was developed thanks to Humabs' technology platform using antibodies…

June 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 22 May 2015

Genzyme joins the never-ending list of Ablynx’ partners

Genzyme is joining Ablynx' partner list, which already includes AbbVie, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eddingpharm, Merck & Co, Merck Serono and Novartis. The Sanofi subsidiary now wants to try out the Nanobody…

May 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 22 May 2015

arGEN-X’ Antibody Platform struck a new Dermatology alliance

arGEN-X and LEO Pharma allied to develop innovative antibody-based solutions for the treatment of chronic inflammation underlying many skin conditions. The deal amounts to a total of €104.5M, from which arGEN-X…

May 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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News and Trends 16 Apr 2015

The challenge of terminal sterilization of Proteins

The production of biologicals is an important challenge for the industry. Today, very often, the only way to have a sterile final product is to, first, use sterile components and then, launch the production…

April 16, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 13 Apr 2015

Humabs and MedImmune partnership to develop an Influenza A treatment

Medimmune starts phase I clinical trial to investigate an antibody developed under a collaboration with Humabs BioMed for the treatment of influenza A. The novel antibody developed through Humabs’ Cellclone technology…

April 13, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 21 Mar 2015

#BioFigures: 12 Key French Players launch New Immunotechnology Reference Center MI-mabs

WHO? MI-mAbs ("MI" for Marseille Immunopole and "mAbs" for monoclonal antibody) is a new immunotechnology center headed by Prof. Francois Romagne, located at the heart of the Marseille-Luminy Scientific and…

March 21, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Marie Godar

News and Trends 14 Mar 2015

Samsung Bioepis Submits a Biosimilar Candidate, to the European Medicines Agency

Samsung Bioepis announced their submission to the to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for SB2, its Remicade (Infliximab) biosimilar candidate. This is the second biosimilar candidate Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) that Samsung…

March 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 11 Mar 2015

First Treatment Approved under Early Access to Medicine Scheme (EAMS)

Today, it has been accepted! The first drug approved through the Early Access to Medicine Scheme (EAMS), named pembrolizumab, is an immunotherapy treatment for advanced melanoma. The treatment has been developed…

March 11, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 23 Feb 2015

Adimab, the secret weapon of the Big Pharma companies

After establishing discovery collaborations with over 30 companies during the past five years (Roche, Pfizer, Genentech, Novartis, Merck, Lilly, Celgene, Novo Nordisk and GSK), it is today with Sanofi that…

February 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 16 Dec 2014

An Effective Renewed Partnership for Treatment of Gynecological Cancers

Curie-Cancer, the part responsible for developing Institut Curie’s industry partnership activities, and GamaMabs Pharma, a company specialized in the development of monoclonal antibodies for cancer, extended their partnership to develop the 3C23K antibody for…

December 16, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 30 Oct 2014

Review : Ebola, The True Story

The first outbreaks of Ebola (also known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever) have occurred in isolated villages in central Africa, near tropical forests, but the recent outbreak in West Africa has…

October 30, 2014 - 26 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 3 Oct 2014

A new way to develop therapeutic monoclonal antibodies against Cancer

Up to now, a vast majority of antibodies targets proteins. Why not targeting something else? ImmuSmol, a start-up based in Bordeaux South of France is developing monoclonal antibodies against small…

October 3, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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