Swedish company Salipro Biotech has entered into a multi-target antibody research agreement with biotech company Icosagen. The agreement leverages Salipro’s proprietary platform technology for membrane proteins to identify drugs that target specific G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and solute carrier (SLC) transporters, as per a 10 October announcement. These membrane proteins play a role in different areas such as oncology and autoimmune diseases. Estonian company Icosagen has CRO [contract research organisation] and CDMO [contract development and manufacturing organisation] capabilities, with expertise in protein production and analytics, which contributes to the drug development of monoclonal antibodies. Icosagen will utilise its QMCF technology to advance the project, based on the 10 October press release. The company’s QMCF technology is based on a proprietary mammalian expression system for producing recombinant proteins. Monoclonal antibodies have been identified by GlobalData as a key innovation area for cancer therapy, with Johnson & Johnson being the leading patent ...
By Tristan Manalac Pictured: AbbVie headquarters in California/iStock, Michael Vi AbbVie has terminated its license and collaboration agreement with I-Mab, the Maryland- and Shanghai-based biotech announced in an SEC filing posted Friday. As a result, I-Mab will regain the global rights to develop and commercialize all CD47 compounds covered by the deal, including the monoclonal antibody lemzoparlimab. The termination will take effect on Nov. 20, 2023 and will not affect the $200 million in upfront and milestone payments that I-Mab had already received from AbbVie. According to I-Mab’s SEC document, AbbVie is pulling away from the partnership as a “strategic decision,” though a prior program discontinuation also factored into its decision. AbbVie and I-Mab first entered into their global agreement in September 2020. For an upfront payment of $180 million and the promise of up to $1.74 billion in success-based milestones, AbbVie earned exclusive rights—outside of the greater China area—to ...
BeiGene will utilise Nona’s Harbour Mice platform as part of the agreement BeiGene and Nona Biosciences have announced an agreement to expand their strategic collaboration for antibody discovery. The collaboration will allow BeiGene to utilise Nona’s Harbour Mice platform – a fully human transgenic mouse platform – to further improve therapeutic antibody discovery efficiency and flexibility. BeiGene first obtained the rights to use the proprietary Harbour Mice H2L2 platform for multiple antibody programmes in 2018 as part of the now expanded collaboration. Harbour Mice works to generate fully human monoclonal antibodies in classical two light and two heavy chain (H2L) formats and heavy chain only (HCAb) formats. The H2L platform allows mice to bear fully human immunoglobulin genes with robust B cell development and antibody maturation. The HCAb platform is the world’s first human HCAb transgenic mouse platform that works to generate fully human heavy chain-only antibodies. It allows the ...
By Tristan Manalac Pictured: Illustration of an antibody molecule/iStock, Dr_Microbe Seagen on Thursday inked a strategic collaboration agreement with San Francisco-based Nurix Therapeutics to develop a potentially new class of therapies—called degrader-antibody conjugates—that selectively kill cancer cells. Under the terms of the agreement, Seagen will make an upfront payment of $60 million and pledge up to $3.4 billion in research, development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments. Nurix will also be entitled to receive mid-single to low-double digit tiered royalties on future sales. The California biotech will also have the option for profit-sharing and co-promotion in the U.S., applicable to two products that emerge from the partnership. Seagen and Nurix will combine their respective expertise and produce degrader-antibody conjugates (DACs), which combine the “tissue and tumor specificity of antibodies with highly potent and catalytic targeted degradation of cancer driver proteins,” Nurix CEO Arthur Sands said in a statement. To achieve this, ...
A man-made antibody successfully prevented organ rejection when tested in primates that had undergone a kidney transplant, Duke Health researchers report. The finding clears the way for the new monoclonal antibody to move forward in human clinical trials. Results of the study appear online Aug. 30 in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Imran J. Anwar, (M.D., lead author, surgical research fellow in Duke’s Department of Surgery) said, “Current medications to prevent organ rejection are good overall, but they have a lot of side effects. These therapies suppress the immune system, putting patients at risk of infections and organ damage, and many cause non-immune complications such as diabetes and high blood pressure. The push over the last 30 to 40 years has been to develop new, less toxic drugs. We are hopeful this antibody moves us closer to that goal.” Anwar and colleagues, including co-senior author Allan Kirk, M.D., Ph.D., chair ...
Dive Brief Danaher plans to buy Cambridge, England-based Abcam for about $5.7 billion in cash, the companies announced on Monday. The acquisition would bring together two firms that make equipment and supplies for life sciences companies. Abcam, with a market capitalization of $5.2 billion, would operate as a standalone company under Washington, D.C.-based Danaher, which has a market cap of $191.7 billion. Danaher reportedly outbid other companies including Agilent Technologies, Reuters wrote on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Dive Insight Abcam, a maker of antibodies, reagents, biomarkers and assays for life science companies, began a review of strategic alternatives in June. A proxy battle waged this summer between the company’s founder and its CEO attracted “strategic inquiries from multiple parties,” Abcam said in a June statement. The company evaluated more than 20 potential acquirers, Abcam said on Monday. The agreement values Abcam at about $24 per share. The ...
An academic group has published preclinical results with a new antibody that has greater activity and fewer side effects than existing biological therapies for inflammatory conditions. This could translate into a clinical benefit for patients living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriasis, or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Researchers from the University of Birmingham in the UK and the University of Naples Federico II in Italy revealed promising results after designing an antibody that targets a 20-long amino acid sequence in interleukin-17 (IL-17) – a protein important in inflammatory pathways. According to the team, they demonstrated for the first time that this sequence activates the release of cyto-chemokines. The antibody, which has been called Ab-IPL-IL-17, targets this sequence in both IL-17A and IL-17F. In cell studies, it demonstrated an ability to reduce the production of cyto-chemokines and white blood cell migration to inflammation-primed tissue. When the researchers compared it to existing therapies ...
AstraZeneca and Sanofi’s Beyfortus (nirsevimab) has been approved in the US for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) in newborns and infants born during or entering their first RSV season, the companies announced. The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision makes the long-acting antibody the first preventive option approved to protect a broad infant population, including those born healthy at term, preterm, or with specific health conditions that make them vulnerable to severe RSV disease. The approval, which also applies to children aged up to 24 months who remain vulnerable to severe RSV disease through their second RSV season, was based on results from the Beyfortus clinical development programme spanning three pivotal late-stage clinical trials and follows a unanimous vote by the Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee on the favourable benefit-risk profile of the drug. Across all clinical endpoints, a single dose of Beyfortus ...
Seeking to launch their respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prevention antibody for infants later this year, Sanofi and AstraZeneca have cleared one more regulatory hurdle.Thursday, experts on the FDA’s Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee voted 21 to 0 that nirsevimab boasts a favorable benefit-risk profile to protect against RSV-associated lower respiratory disease in infants born during or entering their first RSV season. On a separate question of whether the drug has a favorable benefit-risk profile in children up to 24 months of age who remain vulnerable through their second RSV season, the vote was 19 to 2 in favor of the drug. “Most babies hospitalized with RSV are born at term and healthy, which is why interventions specifically designed to protect all infants are likely to result in the greatest impact,” Sanofi’s executive vice president of vaccines, Thomas Triomphe, said in a Thursday statement. “We are encouraged by the Advisory Committee’s positive ...
By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN CNN — Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted Thursday to endorse a monoclonal antibody designed to protect infants and some young toddlers from RSV. Members of the agency’s Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee voted 21-0 that the benefit-risk profile of nirsevimab was favorable in infants and 19-2 that it was favorable in children up to 24 months who are vulnerable to severe respiratory syncytial virus. Next, the FDA will consider the advice of the advisers and decide whether to approve the treatment. The monoclonal antibody, nirsevimab, was developed by AstraZeneca and Sanofi. It’s designed to be given to infants in a single shot at birth or just before the start of a baby’s first RSV season, or as a larger dose in a second RSV season in children who are highly vulnerable. If approved, it will be the first single-dose preventative treatment for all ...
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