Optimizing eConsent for Patient Centricity

Artificial intelligence (AI) - “getting computers to do things that normally require a human mind” - is routinely being put to good use when making pharma clinical development decisions.

Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs) are a rapidly growing class of oncology therapeutics wherein a potent cytotoxic drug is conjugated to the antibody molecule. The impact of drug conjugation on the antibody's conformation needs to be evaluated.

Sequence variants (SVs) are protein isoforms that contain one or more unintended amino acid substitutions. They can arise at a single amino acid site due to a genetic (RNA/DNA) mutation or at multiple amino acid locations, potentially due to translational errors, also referred to as misincorporations. The ability to detect SVs in protein biotherapeutics is critical due to their potential impact on structural/functional characteristics, safety, and efficacy. Trypsin peptide mapping with liquid chromatography-ultrahigh resolution tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) provides the ideal workflow for the detection, identification, and relative quantitation of both genetic and translational SVs.

It Is Approaching Two Years since Publication of the 2ND Edition Commissioning & Qualification (C&Q) Ispe Baseline Guide.