Morphotek licenses cancer Ab from HMI

17 March 2008

Morphotek, a US subsidiary of Japan's Eisai, has signed a licensing deal with Human Monoclonals International for rights to a monoclonal IgM antibody that targets a specific cancer antigen.

Under the deal, financial terms of which were not disclosed, the Pennsylvania-headquartered firm will apply its proprietary Morphodoma antibody technology and know-how to the compound with the aim of developing an optimized candidate drug and high-titre cell line, suitable for scalable manufacturing.

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