Lonza has acquired Synaffix B.V., a biotech company focused on commercializing its clinical-stage technology platform for the development of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs).
Avidity Biosciences, a biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of RNA therapeutics called Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs), today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to AOC 1044.
In a move to increase its presence in immunology and inflammation, the Danish biotech Genmab has launched a collaboration with argenx in the Netherlands to co-discover and co-develop antibody treatments.
An experimental antibody drug developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals called pozelimab could become the first approved treatment of the hereditary immune disease CHAPLE, with a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval decision expected by August...
Infinimmune, a biotech pioneering new methods for antibody drug discovery and development, has closed a $12 million seed round: helping it develop its R&D capabilities.
BigHat Biosciences, a US biotech with a machine learning-guided antibody discovery and development platform, has announced a collaboration with Merck to apply its technology to design candidates for up to three drug discovery programs.
GeNeuro has recruited the first patients in a Phase 2 trial evaluating temelimab against long-COVID: assessing the efficacy of the treatment for improving cognitive impairment and fatigue.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Provention Bio’s Tzield (teplizumab-mzwv) to delay the onset of stage 3 type 1 diabetes: with the American Diabetes Association welcoming it as a 'tremendous accomplishment'.
AstraZeneca and Sanofi’s Beyfortus (nirsevimab) has been approved in the EU the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract disease in newborns and infants during their first RSV season.
Samsung Biologics has introduced two new platforms focused on optimized antibody production and systematic screening of molecules at an early development stage.
People with HIV who began taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the early stages of infection achieved a lengthy period of HIV suppression without ART after receiving two broadly neutralizing anti-HIV antibodies (bNAbs), according to a study published...
Chinese companies, Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals and CtM Biotech Co Ltd, are collaborating on the development of antibody drugs against intracellular tumor-associated antigens.
Prothena has announced FDA clearance of IND for PRX012, a subcutaneous anti-amyloid beta antibody under investigation for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
Wheeler Bio, a newly established company aiming accelerate the translation of therapeutic innovation into clinical impact, recently closed a US$14m seed financing round.
Samsung Biologics will manufacture AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 long-lasting antibody combination (AZD7442) and cancer immunotherapy product from next year under an expanded partnership.
AION Labs, a new innovation lab spearheading the adoption of AI technologies and computational science to solve therapeutic challenges, has announced a global call for application to identify biomedical scientists and inventors to form a new startup at...
AZD7442, a combination of two long-acting antibodies (LAAB), reduced the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 by 77%, according to results from a Phase 3 trial.
The drug, intended for adult patients with moderate-to-severe systemic lupus erythematosus, is the only new therapy approved for SLE in more than a decade.
Moderna today highlighted the publication of antibody persistence data out to six months following the second dose of its COVID-19 vaccine in The New England Journal of Medicine.
UnitedHealth Group is partnering with Eli Lilly and Co to test the efficacy of the Indianapolis-based pharma giant’s COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment, bamlanivimab, with patients at the highest risk of adverse outcomes.
Special Edition: The Future of Continuous BioProcessing
The shift away from batch downstream processing has moved closer in recent years amid progress on techniques such as antibody purification using continuous chromatography media. However, there remain barriers to clear before manufacturing facilities that...
BioInvent, a Swedish biotech focused on the discovery and development of immuno-regulatory antibodies for oncology, reports that it has been contracted as manufacturer of Cantargia’s antibody CAN10.
A new mathematical modeling study by Ashish Goyal and colleagues, informed by data collected from 25 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in four different countries, offers some important new insights into the optimal timing of four different antiviral...
Antibody-focused service providers merge their offerings to create a ‘seamless workflow’ on antibody-drug conjugates to help save developers’ time and costs.
Aiming to facilitate and accelerate discovery of biologics, Aridis’ Apex platform can also discover antibodies against viruses ‘within one day of a pandemic’.
Almirall enters drug discovery agreement with WuXi Biologics, gaining access to the WuXiBody platform to develop antibodies for the treatment of dermatological diseases.
Adaptate gains access to Iontas’ platform to select antibodies with optimal biophysical properties for the development of gamma delta T-cell modulating therapeutics.
GE to set up its FlexFactory platform for antibody manufacturing at Akeso’s facility in Guangzhou, aiming to optimize the latter’s biologics production.
Merck enters a clinical collaboration agreement with Oncologie to evaluate the combination of investigational drug Bavituximab and Keytruda in cancer patients.
AbbVie and Teneobio enter an agreement to develop and commercialize an immunotherapeutic for the treatment of multiple myeloma using the latter’s proprietary anti-CD3 platform.
