Amgen, Adaptive Partner In COVID-19 Neutralizing Antibody R&D Effort

 
• By Joseph Haas
  
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The companies are combining their technologies to seek neutralizing antibody therapeutics that could prevent or treat COVID-19, building on their previous partnership in monitoring minimal residual disease in blood cancers.

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Amgen and Adaptive are combining their expertise to seek a neutralizing antibody fight COVID-19

Amgen Inc. and Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. have been working on diagnostics for hematologic cancer therapies, and now aim develop neutralizing antibody medicines that could prevent or treat patients infected with the COVID-19 virus. They announced the collaboration on April 2, saying they would begin work immediately under a memorandum of understanding while a collaboration and licensing agreement is finalized.

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