BARCELONA, Spain I October 06, 2021 I La Merie Publishing announced the release of its newest report about antibody and cytokine prodrugs . The report “Masked Antibodies & Cytokines As Prodrugs: a landscape analysis of stakeholders, technologies, pipelines, business and financing from an industry perspective” provides a landscape description and...

STUTTGART, Germany I April 4, 2018 I 2018 was another record year for global sales of branded recombinant therapeutic antibodies and proteins: US$ 202 mln (+7.3% vs previous year). Major contributing factor to the growth were sales of therapeutic antibodies which showed a continuous annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.1%...

The next two years will give definitive clues about the prospects of this promising treatment modality for solid tumors STUTTGART, Germany I May 23, 2018 I T-Cell Receptors (TCR) and Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CAR) are the cuttingedge of adoptive T-cell therapy. Both receptors deploy T-cells to target the tumor, but...

STUTTGART, Germany I March 12, 2018 I Global sales of branded recombinant therapeutic antibodies and proteins in the calendar year 2017 reached an all time high of more than US$ 188 bln, as reported by La Merie Publishing. The increase by 11.9% compared with the previous year was driven by...

STUTTGART, Germany I January 25, 2018 I A tissue-based map of the human proteome suggests that about 75 % are intracellular or secreted targets not accessible for conventional monoclonal antibody and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy (Uhlen et al., Science, 2015). Thus, the large pool of intracellular protein targets,...

STUTTGART, Germany I June 23, 2017 I Overlooked for many years, RNA languished as the ugly stepchild of nucleic acid vaccine development and was thought to be a poor choice for a therapeutic agent given its short half-life in vivo and its immunogenicity. But two of the main problems of...

STUTTGART, Germany I January 25, 2017 I The acquisition of oncolytic virus company BioVex by Amgen in late 2011 for up to US$ 1 bln has been a game changer for the field of oncolytic viruses, now recognized as a promising new therapeutic approach for cancer treatment. The approval of...

STUTTGART, Germany I August 10, 2016 I Immunotherapy of B-cell malignancies with specifically targeted autologous T-cells most probably will see the first adoptive cell therapy products approved in the year 2017. Novartis, Kite Pharma and Juno Therapeutics are in a head-to-head race to be first on the market with anti-CD19...