AbCellera

fiercebiotech | June 13, 2019

Gilead Sciences has entered into an infectious disease antibody discovery pact with AbCellera. The deal sees Gilead task AbCellera with using technologies that have landed a string of deals with big biopharma companies to find rare antibodies with certain characteristics. AbCellera has become a go-to partner for big biopharma antibody discovery efforts, completing more than 40 projects with companies including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck and Pfizer. The interest has led to larger, longer deals, notab...

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AbCellera and Versant Ventures | July 28, 2022

AbCellera and Versant Ventures announced a multi-year collaboration to discover therapeutic antibodies for multiple targets selected by Versant’s portfolio of biologics-focused biotechs. Versant and AbCellera already have enabled three of the firm’s stealth-stage companies under previous partnerships. Under the terms of the deal, Versant portfolio companies will have rights to develop and commercialize the resulting therapeutic antibodies. AbCellera will receive resear...

Labiotech.eu | January 28, 2020

A Swiss research group has developed tiny plastic particles that could carry gene therapies to the center of the cell with less risk of getting attacked by the immune system than conventional gene therapies. The majority of gene therapies in use today are delivered to the DNA of target cells using viral vectors. While efficient at their job, viral vectors can risk triggering the immune system to destroy them. This can lead to the therapy becoming ineffective....

FierceBiotech | January 27, 2020

Johnson & Johnson is joining the growing ranks of biopharmas, including the likes of Moderna and Gilead Sciences, in trying to create a speedy vaccine for the coronavirus out of China. Over the weekend, we learned of a wider range and more deaths as the new virus, which appears to have come out of Wuhan, China, is doing what these diseases do best: spread. The causes of death have so far been reported as pneumonia, with other reports suggesting most of these have come from those with underly...