The Antibody Society

the official website of the antibody society

An international non-profit supporting antibody-related research and development.

  • LOG IN
  • BECOME A MEMBER
  • About
    • Mission & Activities
    • Directors and Officers
    • Marketing & Promotions
    • The Antibody Society’s Committees
      • Meetings Committee
      • AIRR Community Working Groups & Sub-Committees
    • Sponsors & Partners
  • Society meetings
    • Computational Antibody Discovery: State of the Art
      • Computational Antibody Discovery Symposium Participants
    • Harnessing Cytokines for Cancer Immunotherapy Symposium
    • Biopharmaceutical Informatics Symposium
    • Emerging Cancer Therapies Leveraging Gamma-Delta Effector T cells Symposium
    • Emerging Immunotherapeutics for Ovarian Cancer Symposium
    • AIRR Community Meetings
    • Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics (US) 2024
      • 2022 Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics
      • 2020 Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics
      • 2019 Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics
      • 2018 Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics
      • What is INN a Name?
        • INN issue updates
    • Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics Europe 10 – 12 June, 2025 | Congress Center, Basel Switzerland.
      • Scientific Advisors, Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics Europe
    • FOCIS Symposia
  • AIRR Community
    • AIRR Community News
    • AIRR Community Newsletter
    • AIRR Community Seminar Series
    • AIRR Community Meetings
      • Zooming into the Community III
      • AIRR Community Meeting VII – Learnings and Perspectives
      • AIRR Community Special Event 2023  – Zooming in to the Community II
      • AIRR Community Meeting VI: “Exploring New Frontiers”
      • AIRR Community Meeting V: “Zooming in to the AIRR Community”
      • AIRR Community Meeting V Pre-Meetings
        • AIRR-seq in the Pandemic
        • AIRR-seq Biological Standards and Workflows
      • AIRR Community Special Event: “Response to COVID-19”
      • AIRR Community Meeting IV: “Bridging the Gaps”
      • AIRR Community Meeting III
        • Day 1
        • Day 2
        • Day 3
        • Day 4
      • AIRR Community Meeting II
      • AIRR Community Meeting I
    • On AIRR – An AIRR Community Podcast
    • AIRR Data Commons
    • AIRR-C Germline Database Resources
    • AIRR Community Publications
    • AIRR Community Working Groups
      • Biological Resources Working Group
      • Common Repository Working Group
      • Diagnostics Working Group
      • Germline Database Working Group
      • Legal and Ethics Working Group
      • Software Working Group
      • Standards Working Group
    • AIRR Community Sub-Committees
      • Communications Sub-Committee
      • Executive Sub-Committee
      • Inferred Allele Review Committee
      • Meetings Sub-Committee
      • Strategic Planning Sub-Committee
    • AIRR Community Webinar Series
    • AIRR Community Calendar
    • AIRR Community Resources
  • Members only
    • Login
    • Note to members
    • Member discount codes
    • 2025 Calendar of Events
    • James S. Huston Antibody Science Talent Award
      • 2024 James S. Huston Antibody Science Talent Award Recipient
      • 2023 James S. Huston Antibody Science Talent Award Recipient
      • 2022 James S. Huston Antibody Science Talent Award Recipient
      • 2021 James S. Huston Antibody Science Talent Award Recipient
      • 2020 James S. Huston Antibody Science Talent Award Recipient
      • Huston Award submission guidelines
    • Research Competitions
      • Research Competition Winners
    • Science Writing Competition
      • Science Writing Competition Winners
    • Imaging Competition
      • Imaging Calendar Competition winners
        • The Antibody Society 2025 Calendar
        • The Antibody Society 2024 Calendar
    • Antibodies in early-stage studies
    • Presentations
  • Upcoming meetings in 2025
  • Web Resources
    • Society Publications
    • Antibody News
    • Antibody News Podcast
    • Antibody therapeutics approved or in regulatory review in the EU or US
      • Antibody therapeutics product data
    • Antibodies in late-stage clinical studies
    • Research Resources
    • Education Resources
  • Career Center
    • Career Shorts
  • Learning Center
    • Upcoming Webinars in 2025
    • The Antibody Series Lectures
    • Antibody Discovery & Development
    • Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoires
    • Antibodies to Watch
    • Commercializing Antibody Therapeutics
    • Antibody Validation
      • 4th International Antibody Validation Meeting, Sep 2023
    • Snakebite antivenoms: Global challenges and progress toward recombinant antibody therapeutics
You are here: Home / Archives for Janice Reichert

Crovalimab approved in China

February 8, 2024 by Janice Reichert

On February 8, 2024, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced that crovalimab (Chinese product name : 派圣凯®) was approved in the People’s Republic of China for treatment of adults and adolescents with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) not been previously treated with complement inhibitors. The regulatory application was filed by a China affiliate of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. because Roche is responsible for the development of crovalimab outside Japan and Taiwan. China is the first country in the world to approve crovalimab. Marketing applications for crovalimab have been submitted to regulatory agencies in the US, EU, and Japan.

Crovalimab (SKY59, RG6107, RO7112689) is a complement C5 inhibiting, humanized IgG1k antibody without effector functions that was engineered (M428L/N434A) to have enhanced affinity to FcRn at an acidic pH to extend its plasma half-life. Based on Chugai’s Recycling Antibody® technology, crovalimab is engineered to bind its antigen repeatedly, enabling sustained complement inhibition at a low dose administered subcutaneously (SC) every 4 weeks. Moreover, crovalimab binds a different epitope of C5 compared to existing antibody drugs, suggesting that it represents an alternative option for patients with PNH with a specific C5 gene mutation.

Crovalimab was granted Breakthrough Therapy for PNH by NMPA and the marketing application for crovalimab, which included data from the China-specific Phase 3 COMMODORE 3 study (NCT04654468), was accepted by NMPA under Priority Review.

COMMODORE 3 was a multicenter single-arm trial studying crovalimab in C5 inhibitor-naive patients with PNH in China. Patients (n=51) received crovalimab according to a weight-based dosing schedule, including loading (intravenous (IV) dose on Days 1 and 4, weekly SC doses starting from Day 2) and SC maintenance doses (every 4 weeks starting from Week 5); treatment continued after 24 weeks in patients with clinical benefit. The co-primary efficacy endpoints of hemolysis control and transfusion avoidance (TA) were met. The mean proportion of participants with hemolysis control from Week 5 through to Week 25 was 78.7% (95% CI: 67.8%, 86.6%).1 The difference between the proportion of participants with TA within 24 weeks prior to screening (0.0%) and the proportion of participants with TA from baseline through to Week 25 (51.0%) was statistically significant (p<0.0001). [1]

The global Phase 3 COMMODORE 1 (NCT04432584) and 2 (NCT04434092) studies assessed the efficacy and safety of crovalimab versus eculizumab in participants with PNH that are C5 inhibitor-experienced patients or not previously treated with complement inhibitors, respectively. COMMODORE 1 assessed safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and exploratory efficacy of crovalimab. Data from the study support the favorable benefit–risk profile of crovalimab, including allowing for SC administration with the option to self-administer. [2] Data from the COMMODORE 2 study presented at European Hematology Association meeting in June 2023 in Frankfurt, Germany demonstrated that SC crovalimab Q4W was non-inferior in disease control to IV eculizumab Q2W with comparable safety for patients who have not been treated with C5 inhibitors. [3]

  1. Liu H, Xia L, Weng J, Zhang F, He C, Gao S, Jia J, Chang AC, Lundberg P, Camelia S. Sima CS, et al. Results from the first Phase 3 crovalimab (c5-inhibitor) study (commodore 3): efficacy and safety in complement inhibitor-naive patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). Presentation at: ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition; New Orleans, 2022 Dec 10-13; Abstract #293. doi.org/10.1182/blood-2022-162452.
  2. Scheinberg P, Cle D, Edwards J, Giai V, Hus M, Kim JS, Barrenetxea Lekue C, Nagy Z, Nur E, Panse J, et al. Phase III randomized, multicenter, open-label COMMODORE 1 trial: comparison of crovalimab vs eculizumab in complement inhibitor-experienced patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). Hemasphere. 2023; 7(Suppl ): e45540d8. 2023 Aug 8. doi: 10.1097/01.HS9.0000967644.45540.d8
  3. Röth A, He G, Brodsky A, Chai-Adisaksopha CC, Dumagay T, Demichelis R, Höglund M, Kelly R, Lee J-H, Nishimura J-I, et al. The PHASE III, randomized COMMODORE 2 trial: results from a multicenter study of crovalimab vs eculizumab in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) patients naive to complement inhibitors. Hemasphere. 2023; 7(Suppl ): e72750f1.

Filed Under: Antibody therapeutic Tagged With: antibody therapeutics, approved antibodies

The Antibody Society is hiring!

January 23, 2024 by Janice Reichert

Come join The Antibody Society in our mission to help people involved or interested in antibody research and development. We seek a Marketing and Events Manager to provide expertise in promoting our brand by managing all marketing activities, including managing and promoting events and creating marketing campaigns. This is an opportunity to be a leader in an organization that aids researchers in their development of antibody therapeutics, which improve the quality of life for many. As the Marketing and Events Managers you will take charge of:

  • Marketing for 2 major events annually, coordinating exhibit hall booth and in-person networking events
  • TAbS brand management on social media and website
  • Managing virtual events, including Symposia and webinars
  • Creating targeted marketing campaigns to attract new members and sponsors
  • Coordinating promotional activities with our partners

We seek a highly engaged individual! You are an ideal candidate if:

  •  You are passionate about the purpose and mission of The Antibody Society
  •  You are pro-active, propose new ideas, and have fun at work
  • You enjoy learning new tasks, adapting to new situations, and engaging in collaborations
  •  You value the opinions and viewpoints of others and you express your own opinions

This is a full-time, fully remote position with typical working hours 9-5 PM ET zone with the ability to flex as needed to complete required tasks. The salary range for this role is $75,000 – $85,000 annually. We offer 15 days of paid time off, a total of 12 paid holidays, and a flexible and generous health reimbursement plan.

We ask that applicants have a degree in a related field and at least 3 years of related experience, including managing online webinars, virtual symposia, and marketing at in-person trade shows.

Qualified applicants interested in the position may submit a resume with references to info@antibodysociety.org.

Filed Under: The Antibody Society Tagged With: marketing manager

The Antibody Society announces the election of new Directors and Officers

January 19, 2024 by Janice Reichert

The Antibody Society, Inc., an international non-profit trade association focused on the advancement of antibody research and development, is pleased to announce the election of Drs. Katherine Harris and Eric Smith to the Board of Directors. Dr. Harris was also elected Vice President (VP) of the Society, and Dr. Janine Schuurman, who served as VP during 2022-2023, was elected President. These Directors and Officers bring enormous experience and expertise through their new roles, which they kindly accepted effective January 1, 2024.

Prof. Paul Parren, Chair of the Society’s Board of Directors remarked: “I could not be more excited by such talented and motivated individuals joining our Board. With Janine Schuurman and Katherine Harris taking charge of Society’s Senior Management and Eric Smith further broadening the Board’s expertise, I am convinced the Society can make an even stronger mark in its mission to advance the therapeutic antibody field”.

Katherine Harris, Ph.D., Chief Development Officer, Rondo Therapeutics

Dr. Katherine Harris leads all IND-enabling activities at Rondo Therapeutics and is responsible for the design and execution of preclinical drug development from candidate nomination through IND submission. Previously, she was Vice President of Discovery at Amgen where she was instrumental in providing strategic and scientific direction for antibody therapeutics in Amgen’s Oncology portfolio. While at Amgen, she led integration of the acquired TeneoBio preclinical portfolio and sequence-based antibody discovery platform while serving as site head of the Amgen Newark Research Facility. As Vice President of Discovery at TeneoBio, Katherine built and led a highly successfully Oncology Research team, making key scientific and strategic contributions to clinical candidates that resulted in 4 IND approvals in less than 6 years of company operations. Dr. Harris holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has presented in numerous national and international forums and has multiple peer-reviewed publications and issued patents.

Eric Smith, Ph.D., Executive Director of Bispecifics, Regeneron

Dr. Eric Smith is a leading figure in the field of bispecific antibodies with over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Duke University in 1997, and followed that with a postdoctoral fellowship at NYU. He then joined Regeneron in 2002, initially focusing on the development of cytokine traps and related molecules. His expertise in protein engineering and immunology soon drew him towards the field of bispecific antibodies, molecules that can simultaneously bind to two distinct targets and offer unique therapeutic possibilities. Dr. Smith was a founding member of the bispecific antibody group at Regeneron in 2007 and he played a key role in establishing Regeneron’s bispecific platform, which is focused on engineering fully human bispecific antibodies with optimal efficacy and safety profiles. His work has resulted in numerous patents and peer-reviewed publications, as well as the generation of more than 10 therapeutic candidate molecules currently in clinical or late-stage pre-clinical development. Currently Dr. Smith is the Executive Director of Bispecifics at Regeneron with responsibility for the discovery and development of bispecific and other antibody-based therapeutics for a variety of important areas of unmet medical need. He is also active in the protein engineering community, presenting at and helping to organize national and international conferences on antibody engineering and bispecific antibodies.

Janine Schuurman, Ph.D., Independent consultant, Lust for Life Science B.V.

Dr. Janine Schuurman’s career centers around the antibody molecule as a biological source of inspiration and as a therapeutic modality. She holds a PhD in molecular immunology from the University of Amsterdam (1997). After a few post-doctoral positions she joined Genmab in the year 2000 to develop antibody therapeutics, as one of the first ten employees on the R&D team. Throughout her Genmab years, she significantly helped propel the discovery and development of investigational therapies to help people with cancer and other diseases. She is a co-inventor of many therapeutic antibodies, including FDA-approved amivantamab (RYBREVANT® Janssen), epcoritamab (EPKINLY® Genmab/Abbvie), and others in clinical and pre-clinical stages of development. She is also a co-inventor of the successful clinically translated bispecific antibody platform DuoBody® and effector function-enhanced HexaBody® platform and the pre-clinical stage HexElect® technology. In addition, she championed many successful academic and industry partnerships in the field of antibody therapeutics and complementary fields of research. Now an independent biotech consultant (Lust for Life Science B.V.) and thought leader, Dr. Schuurman is as passionate and active as ever, collaborating with many organizations and speaking at scientific conferences around the world. She is increasingly focused on the impact of leadership and organizational culture on innovation, and it is her strong belief that being curious and valuing different expertise and capabilities is key to driving innovative research and new technologies.

About The Antibody Society

The Antibody Society, Inc. is an international non-profit trade association representing individuals and organizations involved in antibody research and development. The Society is an authoritative source of information about antibody therapeutics development, which we disseminate via our website, presentations, and publications. In addition, the Society organizes conferences and webinars on antibody research and development and related topics. The Society also serves as the home for the Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Community, which focuses on developing standards and protocols for curating, analyzing and sharing antibody B and T cell receptors. As a business association, the Society can engage with government and international agencies such as the World Health Organization to discuss topics that are important to the antibody community, such as international naming conventions.

Filed Under: The Antibody Society Tagged With: board of directors

“Antibodies to Watch in 2024” is now online!

January 5, 2024 by Janice Reichert

In this 15th installment of the annual ‘Antibodies to Watch’ article series, we review commercially sponsored monoclonal antibody therapeutics currently in late-stage clinical development, regulatory review, and those granted a first approval in any country in 2023. We also discuss clinical phase transition and overall approval success rates for antibody therapeutics, which are crucial to the biopharmaceutical industry because these rates inform decisions about resource allocation. Our analyses indicate that these molecules have approval success rates in the range of 14–32%, with higher rates associated with antibodies developed for non-cancer indications. Overall, our data suggest that antibody therapeutic development efforts by the biopharmaceutical industry are robust and increasingly successful.

Download or read the full paper here.

The complete abstract is here: The ‘Antibodies to Watch’ article series provides an annual summary of commercially sponsored monoclonal antibody therapeutics currently in late-stage clinical development, regulatory review, and those recently granted a first approval in any country. In this installment, we discuss key details for 16 antibody therapeutics granted a first approval in 2023, as of November 17 (lecanemab (Leqembi), rozanolixizumab (RYSTIGGO), pozelimab (VEOPOZ), mirikizumab (Omvoh), talquetamab (Talvey), elranatamab (Elrexfio), epcoritamab (EPKINLY), glofitamab (COLUMVI), retifanlimab (Zynyz), concizumab (Alhemo), lebrikizumab (EBGLYSS), tafolecimab (SINTBILO), narlumosbart (Jinlitai), zuberitamab (Enrexib), adebrelimab (Arelili), and divozilimab (Ivlizi)). We briefly review 26 product candidates for which marketing applications are under consideration in at least one country or region, and 23 investigational antibody therapeutics that are forecast to enter regulatory review by the end of 2024 based on company disclosures. These nearly 50 product candidates include numerous innovative bispecific antibodies, such as odronextamab, ivonescimab, linvoseltamab, zenocutuzumab, and erfonrilimab, and antibody–drug conjugates, such as trastuzumab botidotin, patritumab deruxtecan, datopotamab deruxtecan, and MRG002, as well as a mixture of two immunocytokines (bifikafusp alfa and onfekafusp alfa). We also discuss clinical phase transition and overall approval success rates for antibody therapeutics, which are crucial to the biopharmaceutical industry because these rates inform decisions about resource allocation. Our analyses indicate that these molecules have approval success rates in the range of 14–32%, with higher rates associated with antibodies developed for non-cancer indications. Overall, our data suggest that antibody therapeutic development efforts by the biopharmaceutical industry are robust and increasingly successful.

Filed Under: Antibody therapeutics pipeline, Approvals, European Medicines Agency, Food and Drug Administration Tagged With: Antibodies to watch, Antibody drug conjugates, antibody therapeutics, approved antibodies, bispecific, cancer, European Medicines Agency, Food and Drug Administration

Visit us at Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics, Booth #113!

December 8, 2023 by Janice Reichert

The Antibody Society

Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics commences on Thursday, December 14, 2023! Visit us at Booth #113 for a free T shirt and networking.

And don’t miss the keynote address by Dr. Heather Bax, the 2023 Huston Award recipient.

See you there!

Filed Under: Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics, Uncategorized Tagged With: antibody engineering, antibody therapeutics, Huston Award

« Previous Page
Next Page »

mabs

mabs

The Official Journal of The Antibody Society

Career Center

Our Career Center is a premier resource to connect highly qualified talent with matching career opportunities. Visit for details on over 800 jobs!

AIRR Community

AIRR Community

The Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Community is a research-driven group organizing around the use of high-throughput sequencing technologies to study antibody/B-cell and T-cell receptor repertoires.

Recent Posts

  • Zooming into the Community III Starts Tomorrow! May 20, 2025
  • Exciting news – The AIRR Community is turning 10! 🎂 May 8, 2025
  • The Antibody Society (TAbS): Win a FREE Attendance Pass to AET Basel & Present A Poster: Call For Abstracts! March 26, 2025

Archives

Follow us online

  • Email
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Home
  • Privacy & Terms of Use
  • About
  • Directors and Officers
  • Advisors
  • Sponsors & Partners
  • Mission & Activities
  • Join the Society
  • Membership Levels
  • Members only
  • Login
  • Antibody therapeutics approved or in regulatory review in the EU or US
  • Meeting reports
  • Presentations
  • Contact

©2015 - scicomvisuals