The Evolution of Antibody-Drug Manufacturing

September 27, 2018

Even before the 1980s, the notion of attaching a cytotoxic agent to a tumorspecific antibody captured the collective imagination of the international drug development community. Were antibodydrug conjugates (ADCs) the magic bullets everyone was looking for that could, among other things, cure cancer? The evolution of ADCs is a stunning example of how global research can sculpt a new technology, gradually refining it in ways no one initially imagined, often spurred by other discoveries that surface along the way.

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