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Twist Bioscience and Astellas team up for antibody discovery

Pharmaceutical Technology

Twist Bioscience and Astellas Pharma have entered a collaboration to help the latter to discover antibodies for immunotherapies. In May 2022, they signed a research partnership and exclusive option licence agreement for the development of antibodies to reduce tumour microenvironment-mediated immunosuppression.

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Twist and Ildong to develop antibodies for immuno-oncology applications

Pharmaceutical Technology

Ildong Pharmaceutical will licence a suite of Twist Bioscience's VHH antibody libraries after the two companies entered a partnership agreement. Twist's VHH libraries, used for discovering and developing antibodies for use in immuno-oncology, will be licensed by Ildong for three years for research and development works. .

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Celltrion’s Avtozma Receives FDA Approval, Making it the Third Actemra Biosimilar to Hit the Market

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The FDAs decision was based on comprehensive data demonstrating biosimilarity between Avtozma and the reference product, Actemra. That was followed by a full approval for the same patient subset in December 2022, making it the first FDA-approved monoclonal antibody to treat COVID-19.

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SK Bioscience gains UK authorisation for SKYCovion Covid-19 vaccine

Pharmaceutical Technology

SK Bioscience has received marketing authorisation from the UK’s medicines and healthcare products regulatory agency (MHRA) for its Covid-19 vaccine, SKYCovion. It was granted based on data from the Phase III study, which demonstrated that the vaccine induced neutralising antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 original strain.

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Innovation in immuno-oncology: Leading companies in tumour antibody serum compositions

Pharmaceutical Technology

In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Immuno-oncology in Pharmaceuticals: Tumour antibody serum compositions. The production of antibodies in response to proteins expressed during cancer development serves as a biomarker.

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China’s NMPA clears Transcenta’s IND for solid tumour treatment

Pharmaceutical Technology

The China National Medical Products Administration’s (NMPA) Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) has granted clearance for Transcenta’s investigational new drug (IND) application for its TST003 to treat solid tumours. TST003 is a first-in-class Gremlin1 targeting humanised monoclonal antibody.

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FDA grants accelerated approval for ImmunoGen’s ovarian cancer ADC

Pharmaceutical Technology

The antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) treatment is indicated for such patients who have previously received one to three systemic therapy regimens, irrespective of the usage of Avastin priorly. binding antibody, a cell-surface protein which is greatly expressed in ovarian cancer, as well as the maytansinoid payload DM4.

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