GSK Expands its License Agreement with Zymework to Develop and Commercialize Bi-Specific Antibodies

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• Zymework to receive preclinical, development & commercial milestone payments and royalties on WW sales. GSK to get an option to develop and commercialize bi-specific candidates for multiple indications including infectious diseases utilizing Zymeworks’ heavy-light chain pairing technology of Azymetric platform
• In 2016, the companies collaborated to develop & commercialize up to six bispecific antibodies utilizing Zymeworks’s Azymetric platform
• Zymeworks’s Azymetric platform allows the transformation of monospecific Ab to bispecific Ab, enabling it to bind with two different targets, thus reducing toxicities and drug resistance        

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