Entries by Thomas Gabrielczyk

Vetter wins at the 2022 CMO Leadership Awards

Vetter, a globally operating CDMO, won the 2022 CMO Leadership Awards in all six core categories – quality, expertise, compatibility, capabilities, reliability and service. Vetter also achieved Champion status in the areas of quality, expertise and compatibility. The award, now in its eleventh year, was given by the leading trade press publication, Life Science Leader.

Lead optimisation – the sequence is the key

The efficacy of therapeutic antibodies is defined by their primary amino acid sequence. ­After discovery, antibody candidates often profit from protein engineering and sequence optimisation. ­Different technologies can improve the functional properties of antibodies as well as their biochemical and biophysical characteristics influencing manufacturing, process development, formulation, and other parameters of the final drug target product profile.

A new purification workflow

Biologicals have shown significant success for more complex diseases, whereas small molecule drugs have not been that effective. New biologicals are mostly highly purified proteins or antibodies, which require the development of technologies for the preparation of a large number of drug candidates with high purity and speed. A high throughput magnetic beads-based ­system is a game-changer for biologics discovery.