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Biotech / Medical : HuMAB companies

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To: scaram(o)uche who wrote (416)10/2/2002 11:09:44 AM
From: nigel bates  Read Replies (2) of 1022
 
why aren't more antibodies described, from academic collaborators, in the literature? XenoMouse or HuMab, a search comes up with few recent successes. And those involve bacteria, bacterial toxins, and HIV...

I don't have an answer to the question - not that it doesn't worry me... I do have a lot more CAT than ABGX. As regards getting MABs into the clinic, is it possible that the current environment is making companies overcautious about committing to trials ?

Interesting snippet from today's CRGN PR, though -

"...101 antibody projects, from which 28 fully human monoclonal antibodies are being evaluated in conjunction with Abgenix as potential therapeutics..."

Back in May -
"...The development of PDGF D mAbs is an important example of one of the 17 mAbs we are currently evaluating with Abgenix..."
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