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News and Trends 16 Nov 2022

Bio-Rad introduces pioneer antibody discovery platform for therapeutic development

Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. yesterday (November 15) announced the launch of its Pioneer Platform, a new antibody discovery service specifically designed to develop biologic candidates. The Pioneer Platform features a phage display library engineered to include more than 200 billion unique sequences and capable of identifying high-affinity antibody candidates using Bio-Rad’s newly developed SpyDisplay selection technology. […]

November 16, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 15 Nov 2022

Biotheus enters agreement with Hansoh Pharma for bispecific antibody

Biotheus Inc., a clinical-stage biotech company focused on the discovery and development of biologics for oncology and inflammatory diseases, has entered into a collaboration agreement with Hansoh Pharmaceuticals, for Biotheus’ EGFR/MET bispecific antibody (also known as PM1080) in China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Under the terms of the agreement, Hansoh will be granted by […]

November 15, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Nov 2022

Lipum starts chronic inflammatory disease drug study

Lipum AB (publ) says its phase 1 clinical study with the drug candidate SOL-116 has started and is progressing according to plan. A first dose group of eight healthy volunteers have received a dose, with two volunteers receiving placebo. Lipum’s drug candidate SOL-116 is a fully humanized antibody that is intended to address a major […]

November 8, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Oct 2022

AbbVie acquires LifeArc portfolio company DJS Antibodies

AbbVie has acquired LifeArc’s portfolio company DJS Antibodies Limited, a privately-held UK-based biotechnology company dedicated to discovering and developing antibody medicines that target difficult-to-drug disease-causing proteins, such as G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). DJS’s lead program is DJS-002, a potential first-in-class lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) receptor 1 (LPAR1) antagonist antibody currently in investigational preclinical studies for the […]

October 20, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

More News! 17 Oct 2022

Clinical trial of treatment for advanced solid tumors approved

A clinical trial of a drug to treat advanced solid tumors has been approved by the National Medical Products Administration. China-based Akeso Inc., made the announcement on Sunday (October 16) about a phase 1b/2 clinical trial of its in-house developed Ivonescimab (PD-1/VEGF bi-specific AK112) combined with Drebuxelimab (CD73, AK119). AK112 is the first PD-1/VEGF bi-specific […]

October 17, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 5 Oct 2022

Transcenta monoclonal antibody gets FDA clearance

Transcenta Holding Limited says its TST004 humanized monoclonal antibody targeting MASP2, has received IND clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). MASP2, mannose-binding protein-associated serine protease 2, is a key enzyme in the lectin pathway initiation of complement activation. Studies have shown that lectin pathway activation contributes to multiple human diseases such as […]

October 5, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 4 Oct 2022

Absolute Biotech launches as unified antibody company

Absolute Biotech has launched as a unified company to join antibody-centric brands from around the world. Absolute Biotech specializes in antibody reagents and services, adding value to existing antibodies, reagents and kits through annotation, validation, sequencing, engineering and recombinant manufacturing. The combined company will leverage each brand’s antibody expertise to advance the creation and availability […]

October 4, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Oct 2022

Oxford BioTherapeutics enters into antibody agreement with Genmab

Oxford BioTherapeutics (OBT) says Genmab has licensed a novel antibody related to one of OBT’s IO programs. The target was discovered using Oxford BioTherapeutics’ OGAP drug discovery platform, which incorporates one of the world’s largest proteomic databases, integrating clinical, experimental and expression data. Under the terms of the agreement, Genmab will be responsible for the […]

October 3, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Startup Scout 22 Sep 2022

Cartography Biosciences unearths cancer immunotherapy targets

Despite its meteoric growth in the last twenty years, cancer immunotherapy research is hamstrung by a lack of viable drug targets. Cartography Biosciences is using a single-cell sequencing approach to meet this demand. Immuno-oncology as a field barely existed 20 years ago, but has rapidly grown into a thriving field of biotechnology research. This has […]

September 22, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 19 Sep 2022

FDA boosts Antengene pancreatic cancer treatment

Biopharma company Antengene Corporation Limited says ATG-101, the company’s in-house developed novel PD-L1/4-1BB bispecific antibody, has been granted an orphan drug designation (ODD) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. The company said the ODD will help Antengene facilitate regulatory communication with the FDA, accelerate the clinical development […]

September 19, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Sep 2022

First patient dosed in China trial with drug to treat non-Hodgkin lymphoma

The dosing of the first patient at a clinical trial in China for patients with relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) was announced yesterday (September 7). CASI Pharmaceuticals and BioInvent International AB are running the phase 1, dose-escalation and expansion study of BI-1206. The treatment is a fully human monoclonal antibody (mAb) that targets FcyRIIB, in combination […]

September 8, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 7 Sep 2022

Could COVID vaccine boosters become obsolete?

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel has demonstrated that antibodies isolated from the immune system of recovered COVID-19 patients are effective in neutralizing all known strains of the virus, including the Delta and the Omicron variants. According to the researchers, this discovery may eliminate the need for repeated booster vaccinations and […]

September 7, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Bio-Rad introduces pioneer antibody discovery platform for therapeutic development

Biotheus enters agreement with Hansoh Pharma for bispecific antibody

Lipum starts chronic inflammatory disease drug study

AbbVie acquires LifeArc portfolio company DJS Antibodies

Clinical trial of treatment for advanced solid tumors approved

Transcenta monoclonal antibody gets FDA clearance

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Oxford BioTherapeutics enters into antibody agreement with Genmab

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