About Us - Abzena

Moving medicine forward.

The leading biologics CDMO + CRO that accelerates drug development, moving medicine forward for patients in need.

Opportunity is out there. Who can you count on to start smart and get you across the finish line? Abzena share knowledge and insights, ensuring seamless transitions, and anticipate and address development challenges on the horizon. We are as committed to success as you are. We have the services, solutions and capacity to move your asset forward. Let's start smart, finish fast.

Our experienced professionals offer the kind of personalized service and flexible working relationship that you need, and your time-sensitive programs deserve.

We are not afraid to question assumptions, and not shy about presenting new and better ideas. Then, we deliver.

What you can come to expect when you partner with Abzena:

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

About Abzena

With research, development, and cGMP facilities across locations in San Diego, CA, Bristol, PA, and Cambridge, UK, Abzena is fully prepared with the services and solutions to move your bioconjugate and biologic programs forward at every step in the process.

Click below to access our corporate brochure to learn why we are considered to be the leading bioconjugate, antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), and complex biologics CDMO + CRO.

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 biopharmaceutical 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 History

We’ve built a fully integrated organization to move complex biologics and bioconjugates ahead.

Abzena History - Timeline of Development

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. Learn more about our rich scientific history today!

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

Abzena for everyone; bring your whole self to work.

You belong. Building an inclusive culture that fosters, empowers and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees, we embrace your thoughts, experiences and talents. It is our belief that the more inclusive we are, the better we work.

We are committed to creating workplaces that reflect the communities we serve so that everyone feels empowered.

Through our values of quality, scientific innovation and integrity, it is our mission to support and uphold fair and just practices and policies in everything that we do.

Sustainability

At Abzena, we place the highest value on our environmental, health, and safety programs. Our Company’s foundation is built on our values which distinguish us and guide our actions.

  • We conduct our business in a socially responsible and
    ethical manner.
  • We strive to be a responsible corporate steward of the
    the natural environment and consider our commitment to
    environmental management and sustainability an
    important priority.

As Abzena continues to grow and provide essential CDMO services to our partners and their patients, we embrace the opportunity to become an industry leader in corporate sustainability.

Quality

Quality is first – to patients, regulatory authorities, and our partners.

Abzena’s Quality organization provides safe and compliant products to your patients. Our Quality organization has a comprehensive program of quality services to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

In addition to our expertise, we have the technologies and analytical capabilities to handle any of your modalities; from the simple to the most complex.

Our Locations

San Diego, CA, USA

Development, Manufacturing

Abzena San Diego boasts a trio of cutting-edge facilities designed to accelerate the development, production, and testing of biologics. 

Bristol, PA, USA

Discovery, Manufacturing

At Abzena Bristol, we specialize in bioconjugation, quality linker payloads, highly potent materials and complex chemistry.

Cambridge, UK

Development, Discovery

Abzena Cambridge specializes in the early discovery, design, and development of complex biologics and bioconjugates.