Genentech is paying Earendil Labs $55 million upfront in a deal worth over $1.5 billion to develop bispecific antibodies for hard-to-treat cancers.
|Articles|February 14, 2023
Development and scale-up of an antibody platform
Author(s)Tosoh Bioscience
A 2-step platform to purify Pertuzumab is developed, using 1 mL and 5 mL pre-packed columns. Then, scale-up is demonstrated using 50 and 200 mL pre-packed columns.
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