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Welsh startup Antiverse raises $2m for antibody discovery toolkit

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million ($2 million) to develop its artificial intelligence-based platform for discovering therapeutic antibodies. The Cardiff, Wales startup is combining machine learning and phage display techniques to model antibody-antigen binding and says it can cut the time it takes to develop a drug candidate.

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Lilly adds to pain pipeline with Asahi Kasei licensing deal

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While tanezumab is an antibody and has to be delivered by subcutaneous injection, AK1780 is orally bioavailable. Along with tanezumab and AK1780, Lilly is also developing LY3016859, an antibody that blocks two different cellular targets (TGF alpha and epiregulin), in phase 2 for chronic pain.