AvantGen Announces Licensing of its anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Clones to IGM Biosciences for COVID-19 Therapy Development

AvantGen, Inc., a San Diego-based biotechnology organization with a variety of innovation stages for neutralizer revelation and enhancement, and novel NK and T cell engager age, today reported permitting of a board of its anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody clones to IGM Biosciences for COVID-19 therapy development.

Utilizing its novel yeast show framework and huge different human antibody response libraries, AvantGen has distinguished a board of high partiality human monoclonal antibody clones that quandary to two unmistakable epitopes on the receptor restricting space of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. After official, the antibodies block the spike protein from cooperating with ACE2 and subsequently forestall infection prompted cell-slaughtering, otherwise called cytopathic impact. Furthermore, one gathering of immune response clones can likewise obstruct ACE2's cooperation with SARS-CoV-1, showing that the epitope perceived by this gathering of clones is rationed between SARS-CoV-1 and - 2, conceivably presenting more extensive killing action against this family of coronaviruses.

In a recognized animal model of SARS-CoV-2 contamination, AvantGen's lead applicant antibody has been appeared to fundamentally diminish viral load in, and macrophage infiltration of, the lungs, as well as reduce disease severity.