Remove Antibody Remove Clinical Development Remove Immune Response
article thumbnail

China’s NMPA accepts IND for SinoMab BioScience’s SM17 to treat asthma

Pharmaceutical Technology

SM17 is a humanised IgG4-k monoclonal antibody that targets IL-17RB to treat asthma, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), atopic dermatitis (AD) and other immunological disorders. It can suppress Th2 immune responses by binding to IL-17RB on Type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s).

article thumbnail

Astellas and Sutro partner to develop immunostimulatory ADCs

Pharmaceutical Technology

Astellas Pharma and Sutro Biopharma have entered a global, strategic partnership and licencing agreement to discover and develop new immunostimulatory antibody-drug conjugates (iADCs). An iADC merges an antibody with a small molecule compound that elicits immunogenic cell death, and an immune-activating molecule.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Evaxion and ExpreS²ion partner to develop new CMV vaccine

Pharmaceutical Technology

In the partnership’s discovery phase, RAVEN, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform of Evaxion will be leveraged for designing a next-generation vaccine candidate that induces cellular as well as humoral/antibody responses. Using ExpreS 2 ion’s ExpreS2 platform, the company will manufacture the antigen constructs obtained from RAVEN.

article thumbnail

Kid EDV by ImmunityBio for Pediatric Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma: Likelihood of Approval

Pharmaceutical Technology

Kid EDV is under clinical development by ImmunityBio and currently in Phase I for Pediatric Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. Kid EDV overview Kid EDV is under development for the treatment of recurrent or refractory solid or CNS tumors including diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas of children. It is administered intravenously.

article thumbnail

Astellas pumps $90m into Sutro immuno-oncology alliance

pharmaphorum

billion partnership with US biotech Sutro Biopharma for a series of antibody-drug conjugates for cancer, focusing on applications in patients who don’t respond to current immunotherapies. Astellas has agreed a $1.36 The alliance includes an upfront payment of $90 million, backed by $422.5

Antibody 105
article thumbnail

Gilead snaps up MiroBio and its checkpoint agonists for $405m

pharmaphorum

MiroBio was formed in 2019 to develop checkpoint agonist antibodies for autoimmune and inflammatory disorders that can be used to apply the “natural brakes” of the immune system. 7 integrin, with three candidates in early-stage clinical development.

Antibody 105
article thumbnail

Novavax Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Development Progress

The Pharma Data

NVX-CoV2373 was created using Novavax’ recombinant nanoparticle technology to generate antigen derived from the coronavirus spike (S) protein adjuvanted with Novavax’ patented saponin-based Matrix-M to enhance the immune response and stimulate high levels of neutralizing antibodies. and Australia.