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ElevateBio and Affini-T collaborate to develop T cell therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

ElevateBio has entered a partnership with Affini-T Therapeutics to progress the latter’s engineered TCR-T therapies focused on Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS), a dominant oncogenic driver mutation in solid tumours. Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva.

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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.

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Chimeric exosomes co-activate immune response and tumor microenvironment for cancer immunotherapy

Scienmag

Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed macrophage–tumor chimeric exosomes that co-activate the immune response and tumor microenvironment to support cancer immunotherapy.

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Genmab and argenx team up to engineer novel antibody therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical company Genmab is entering a partnership with argenx to develop antibody therapies for oncology and immunology. This collaboration is being made to combine the companies’ capabilities to develop novel therapeutic antibodies with applications in the two disease areas.

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Second-Generation mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate, CV2CoV, Demonstrates Improved Immune Response and Protection in Preclinical Study

The Pharma Data

Better activation of innate and adaptive immune responses was achieved with CV2CoV, resulting in faster response onset, higher titers of antibodies, and stronger memory B and T cell activation as compared to the first-generation candidate, CVnCoV. “In Induction of innate immunity was investigated via specific cytokine markers.

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Ginkgo Bioworks to discover and develop novel vaccine adjuvants 

Drug Discovery World

A five-year contract totalling up to $31 million including programme options has been awarded to Ginkgo Bioworks to discover and develop next-generation vaccine adjuvants. The post Ginkgo Bioworks to discover and develop novel vaccine adjuvants appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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AbbVie partners with Immunome for new cancer drug targets discovery

Pharmaceutical Technology

The multi-year collaboration will use Immunome’s Discovery Engine to discover up to ten new antibody pairs arising from three specified types of tumours. Additionally, the company will be eligible for up to $120m in development and first commercial sales milestones per target.

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