Complex Biologics CDMO+ CRO - Abzena

Mission & Values

Mission, Vision and Values of Abzena

Abzena share knowledge and insights, We ensure seamless transitions, and anticipate and address challenges on the horizon.

We value our partnerships with you. When you partner with Abzena expect:

Access to Genuine Scientific & Technical Experts
Proactive Solutions for Streamlining Development
Diverse and Interconnected Teams
End-to-End Support Under One Organization

Our Mission

Moving Medicine Forward.

We enable you to bring life-changing medicines to patients in need. Let’s work together to de-risk & streamline the development and manufacture of your biologic or antibody-drug conjugate (ADC).

Let’s move you from promise to product and move medicine forward.

Our Vision

Led by science, Abzena is designed for innovation.

We offer a diverse range of complex scientific approaches and embrace innovative drug development ideas. Through the seamless integration of our biologic, bioconjugate and chemistry services, solutions, and locations, we are uniquely positioned to move medicines forward to patients in need, faster.

What sets Abzena apart?

Access to Genuine Scientific & Technical Experts

We have over 20 years of experience in delivering solutions at each stage of the development lifecycle from early-stage research and discovery, through lead candidate selection, and onward into process development and GMP manufacture.

Unlike most other service providers, we can provide technical and scientific support that truly spans early-stage research through process development and GMP manufacturing under a single organization to better ensure that the TPP can be achieved. Our global scientific teams have extensive experience in overcoming some of the most challenging and complex biologic and bioconjugate programs, making us the perfect partner for novel and disruptive technologies that other CDMOs may shy away from.

Proactive Problem Solving to Ensure Downstream Success

Our experienced team is focused on getting it right from the start. We identify and address challenges early in drug design to better ensure downstream clinical and commercial success. We also have expertise in fixing and optimizing drugs in later stage development to rescue them from the drug development graveyard.

Diverse & Interconnected Expertise Under a Single Organization

With capabilities ranging from bioassays to cell line development, bioconjugation and clinical and commercial manufacturing, all under one organization, we can reduce the white space in the development path, which ultimately minimizes risk, reduces costs and accelerates timelines for our customers.

As an integrated service provider, we accelerate timelines through the ease of technical and materials transfer, and improved scheduling. Better workflows and processes can also be attained through improved knowledge transfer between internal multidisciplinary experts and the development of a deep understanding of the drug as it progresses from target to lead selection and process development and manufacture.

Driven by Innovation to Streamline Development

Our team is always seeking new ways to innovate and streamline development for our customers. Our extensive scientific capabilities and proprietary solutions like EpiScreen® 2.0, Composite Proteins™, Composite Human Antibodies™, AbZelectPRO™, ThioBridge™, and LabZient™ are designed to give your program the best chance of clinical and commercial success.

  • EpiScreen® 2.0 — an extensive suite of bioinformatic and primary human cell-based assays for immunogenicity assessment to inform of potential safety and efficacy risks in the clinic.
  • Composite Human Antibody™ — a platform used for designing safer, more effective, humanized antibodies.
  • Composite Proteins™ — a deimmunization technology that designs safer and more effective therapeutic proteins, devoid of human T cell epitopes, to minimize potential immunogenicity in patients without compromising activity.
  • AbZelectPRO™ — high-yielding cell line development (CLD) platform for accelerating the generation of production cell lines for manufacture of antibodies and recombinant proteins.
  • ThioBridge™ — a next-generation conjugation linker technology proven to enhance ADC development by overcoming issues with existing technologies to improve stability, potency, and efficacy.
  • LabZient™ — our analytical platform that combines predictive in-silico evaluation with laboratory methods to de-risk the application of platform analytical procedures and expedites the pathway to IND.

Our Values

Scientific Innovation

Our depth of scientific and technical expertise is the foundation for everything we do. Focused on finding the best solutions using the right technologies, we are continuously developing our offering to achieve the best project outputs. Our team is forward-thinking and committed to taking a unique approach to every project we take on ensuring we get vital medicines to patients as quickly as possible.

Quality Focus

We are committed to achieving quality excellence. This is not limited to quality compliance, but the quality of everything we do. Dedicated to quality of delivery, communications and operations, we work to ensure consistently high standards across the drug development process.

Why Choose Abzena? - About Abzena

Integrity

We pride ourselves on being honest, responsible and delivering on our promises. We work to build real relationships with our partners, working with you as an extension of your team. We are transparent in our communications and work collaboratively to progress projects as seamlessly as possible. We are a reliable partner you can count on.

We are advocates and partners for our customers’ success...

"Abzena has been crucial in advancing and validating our technology and programs. The team is very thoughtful, has strong troubleshooting skills and maintains a high standard in generating quality data with integrity. We highly recommend working with Abzena."

Shiva Bhowmik, PhD

Shiva Bhowmik, PhD | COO
TRIO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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“Throughout the development of AGX101, Abzena has worked closely with us to achieve successful GMP manufacturing and quality control. We could not have reached this milestone without Abzena’s expertise, cooperation, and support.”


Paul Jaminet

Paul Jaminet | Co-founder & CEO
Angiex

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"We worked with the Abzena team for the design and the initial production of both the mAb and the antibody-chelator conjugate to support our R&D programs. We had a productive and valuable interaction with a highly skilled scientific team and we benefited from the flexibility of the services at this early stage of development."
Tina Bjørnlund Bønsdorff

Tina Bjørnlund Bønsdorff | CSO
Oncoinvent AS

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"I’ve never had a CRO project go this smoothly and the ADCs delivered were very high quality. I’m confident that my client will put Abzena at the top of their list for future ADC projects."



David Jackson

David Jackson | Pharmaceutical Consultant & ADC Expert
DYJ Pharma Consulting

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