Chinese player joins a growing group of biotechs buying into Synaffix's ADC linker tech
In developing any antibody-drug conjugate, the linker — the hyphen between the antigen-binding antibody and the cancer-killing drug — is of utmost importance. Link too much payload to the antibody too loosely, and you risk triggering off-site toxicity while the ADC is circulating through blood; link too little, and it falls short of the goal to kill off cancer cells from within. And while a host of drugmakers have followed Seattle Genetics’ lead into new linker technology, in some cases deploying engineering the antibodies, there’s still much to be learned about controlling the resulting ADCs.
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