New service reduces the risk, expenditure and time required for the later stages of antibody development Cambridge, UK, 9 December 2019 – Abzena is showcasing its new Developability Service, enabling biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to improve lead selection and de-risk cell line development, at Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics 2019 being held 9–13 December, on Booth […] Read more

Bespoke approach generates high affinity antibodies and selects lead candidates with the strongest chances of success in the clinic Cambridge, UK, 18 November 2019 – Abzena is showcasing its Discovery and Developability Services, enabling biopharmaceutical companies to generate high affinity antibodies and select lead candidates with the highest chances of clinical success at the 11th Annual Protein […] Read more

PRINCETON, NJ and San Diego, CA, USA 22 October 2019 – Sonnet BioTherapeutics Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical developing innovative targeted biologic drugs, announced today that it has selected Abzena as its manufacturing partner for SON-1010, an IL-12-FHAB cytokine, in preparation for clinical development. SON-1010 uses Sonnet’s proprietary FHAB™ (Fully Human Albumin Binding) technology that leverages […] Read more

Abzena announced today the appointment of Kimball Hall as Chief Operating Officer, adding to the company’s executive leadership team. Ms. Hall will focus on the growth of Abzena as the leading Partner Research Organization (PRO) for outsourced integrated gene to GMP services for large molecules and antibody drug conjugates.  She joins Abzena from Genentech, a […] Read more

Cambridge, UK 07 October 2019 – Abzena, the leading biologics target to GMP Partner Research Organisation, announced it has augmented its antibody drug conjugation (ADC) and biologics (including mono and bispecific antibodies) development services with the launch of ADC Cascade and Biologics Cascade. These ex-vivo platform approaches allow efficacy and safety studies against clinically characterized […] Read more

San Diego, USA July 2019 – Abzena, the global partner research organization, announced it has successfully completed a technology transfer and scalability evaluation using the Synaffix technologies of GlycoConnect™ (antibody conjugation) and HydraSpace™ (highly polar spacer). Familiarity with these Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) technologies adds to Abzena’s leadership in process development and GMP manufacturing of ADC […] Read more

San Diego, USA , 21 June 2019 – Abzena, the leading global biologics and ADC target partner research organization, announced it has appointed Andrew Kraus as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Philip Payne as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). As CTO Mr. Kraus will implement advanced technology solutions to further enhance data integrity controls, regulatory compliance […] Read more

San Diego, USA, 3 June 2019 – Abzena, the leading biotherapeutics target to GMP partner research organization (PRO) announced an accelerated program to IND.  This reduces timeline from stable pool to GMP down to 14 months. The timeline is achieved by use of single project team with experienced leadership, overlapping of operational activities, internal technology transfer […] Read more

Cambridge, UK and San Diego, USA, 28 March 2019 – Abzena, the leading global biologics target to GMP partner research organisation, announced it has appointed Dr Campbell Bunce as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) and Bo Adair MBA as Senior Vice President Process and Operations. Dr Bunce joined Abzena in November 2015 as SVP Scientific Operations […] Read more

Cambridge, UK 21 March 2019 – Abzena, the leading biologics target to GMP partner research organisation (PRO), announced its Cambridge UK site has brought together its extensive discovery, immunogenicity assessment, protein engineering, formulation, bioassay and analytical expertise to launch a developability assessment and optimization service to assist customers in selecting and developing the best lead candidate […] Read more