News: Affimed Therapeutics

29.04.2010 | BioSpace: Affimed Therapeutics AG Raises E 20 million in a Series C Financing Round

Heidelberg, Germany; April 29 2010: Affimed Therapeutics AG, the therapeutic TandAb antibody company, today announced the successful closing of a Series C financing round of ¬ 20 million. The proceeds from this transaction will be used to fund the clinical validation of (…)

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10.03.2010 | Bionity.com: Affimed Therapeutics AG expands clinical development team

10.03.2010 - In preparation for the clinical entry of its first product candidate Affimed Therapeutics AG expands its development team with an experienced expert. Effective immediately, Dr Christian Hucke takes over responsibility for planning and implementation of the clinical (…)

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08.02.2010 | BioSpace: Affimed Therapeutics AG Successfully Completes Preclinical Development of AFM 13

Heidelberg, Germany; February 08 2010: Affimed Therapeutics AG, the therapeutic TandAb antibody company, today announced the successful completion of the preclinical development of its lead product AFM 13 for the treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma. Following promising preclinical (…)

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14.01.2010 | BioSpace: Affimed Therapeutics AG Completes Move Into Drug Development

Heidelberg, Germany; January 14 2010: Affimed Therapeutics AG, the therapeutic antibody company from Heidelberg, announced today that it is now concentrating all activities on the exclusive development of its in-house drug candidates derived from the company's proprietary (…)

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26.10.2009 | PR Newswire: Reportlinker Adds Monoclonal Antibodies: Pipeline Analysis and Competitive Assessment

NEW YORK, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ - Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. Reportlinker Adds Monoclonal Antibodies: Pipeline Analysis and Competitive Assessment (…)

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30.09.2009 | Business Wire: Reportlinker Adds Monoclonal Antibody Therapeutics 2009-2024

NEW YORK-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. Reportlinker Adds Monoclonal Antibody Therapeutics 2009-2024 (…)

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15.09.2009 | BioSpace: Affimed Therapeutics AG Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for AFM13 against Hodgkin Lymphoma

Heidelberg, Germany, September 15, 2009 - Affimed Therapeutics AG announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to the human recombinant antibody AFM13 for the treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma. The designation entitles Affimed (…)

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25.06.2009 | Business Wire: Therapeutic Antibodies Market Expected to Reach $33 Billion by 2012

DUBLIN-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Research and Markets (http:/www.researchandmarkets.com/research/1d5546/therapeutic_monocl) has announced the addition of the "Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies Markets" report to their offering. Newly published Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies Markets (…)

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03.06.2009 | Business Wire: Reportlinker Adds Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies Markets

NEW YORK-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. Reportlinker Adds Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies Markets (…)

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11.02.2009 | Bionity.com: Affimed joins the Molecular Imaging Technology InitiativeBMBF awards Affimed a funding grant of 550K

11.02.2009 - Affimed Therapeutics AG announced the start of a collaboration project with Bayer Schering Pharma AG, the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and other partners within the Molecular Imaging Technology Initiative launched by the German Federal Ministry of Education (…)

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09.02.2009 | BioSpace: Affimed Therapeutics AG Joins the Molecular Imaging Technology Initiative

Heidelberg, Germany - February 09, 2009 - Affimed Therapeutics AG, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of antibody therapeutics, today announced the start of a collaboration project with Bayer Schering Pharma AG, the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and (…)

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06.10.2008 | Marketwire: Examine Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies Market

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM-(Marketwire - Oct. 6, 2008) - Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Pharmaceutical industry is available in its catalogue. Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies Report 2008-2023 (…)

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10.06.2008 | Bionity.com: Affimed appoints Chief Business Officer

10 Jun 2008 - Affimed Therapeutics AG announced that it has appointed Volker Lang, Ph.D., as its Chief Business Officer. Dr. Lang joins Affimed from Scil Technology where he was Vice President of Corporate Development. At Scil Technology, he was responsible for the commercial (…)

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05.06.2008 | BioSpace: Affimed Therapeutics AG Appoints Chief Business Officer

Heidelberg, Germany June 05, 2008 Affimed Therapeutics AG, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of antibody therapeutics, today announced that it has appointed Volker Lang, Ph.D., as its Chief Business Officer. Dr. Lang joins Affimed from Scil Technology where (…)

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14.05.2008 | Bionity.com: Affimed validates antibody target for cancer metastasis

14 May 2008 - Affimed Therapeutics AG announced that a collaboration with Dr. Stefan Weiss at the Institute of Biochemistry of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich has strongly validated a target for cancer metastases amenable to the development of antibodies or other (…)

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20.02.2008 | Business Wire: Affimed Increases Series B Financing in Second Closing to Euro 30 Million (USD 45 Million)

HEIDELBERG, Germany-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Affimed Therapeutics, AG, a leading developer of next generation antibody therapeutics, today announced a second closing of Euro 5 million to its Series B funding. This addition increases the total for the round to Euro 30 million (USD 45 (…)

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13.02.2008 | Business Wire: Affitech Appoints Sergej Kiprijanov New Head of Research

OSLO, Norway-(BUSINESS WIRE)-The human antibody company, Affitech AS, announced today the appointment of Dr. Sergej Kiprijanov as the Vice President of Discovery Research and Preclinical Development. Joining Affitech at a key stage in the company s growth, Dr. Kiprijanov brings (…)

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13.02.2008 | BioSpace: Affitech AS Appoints Sergej Kiprijanov New Head of Research

OSLO, Norway-(BUSINESS WIRE)-The human antibody company, Affitech AS, announced today the appointment of Dr. Sergej Kiprijanov as the Vice President of Discovery Research and Preclinical Development. Joining Affitech at a key stage in the company s growth, Dr. Kiprijanov (…)

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03.03.2007 | NCBI PubMed: Flawed TandAb production.

Mol Immunol. 2007 Mar 3; |-| Little M, Kipriyanov S. |-| Affimed Therapeutics AG, Im Neuenheimer Feld 582, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

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01.03.2007 | NCBI PubMed: Specific inhibition of interleukin-13 activity by a recombinant human single-chain immunoglobulin domain directed against the IL-13 receptor alpha1 chain.

Interleukin-13 (IL-13) is a T-cell-derived pleiotropic cytokine of particular medical importance because of its critical role in the development of allergic asthma. The effects of IL-13 on its target cells are mediated through a dimeric transmembrane receptor (IL-13R), which (…)

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10.04.2006 | Business Wire: InNexus Biotechnology and Affimed Therapeutics AG to Collaborate; Will Use SuperAntibody Technology to Target Multiple Cancers

VANCOUVER, British Columbia & SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. & HEIDELBERG, Germany-(BUSINESS WIRE)-April 10, 2006-InNexus Biotechnology, Inc. (TSX.V: IXS)(OTCBB: IXSBF) and Affimed Therapeutics today announced a collaboration utilizing Affimeds antibodies and InNexus SuperAntibody antibody (…)

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14.02.2006 | PR Newswire: Agreement on Development Contract: ProBioGen and Affimed Continue Their Collaboration

BERLIN and HEIDELBERG, Germany, February 14 /PRNewswire/ - ProBioGen, the international cell specialists from Berlin, and Heidelberg based Affimed Therapeutics AG, specializing in the development of recombinant antibodies for the treatment of cancer, announce the execution of a (…)

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10.11.2004 | NCBI PubMed: Effect of tetravalent bispecific CD19xCD3 recombinant antibody construct and CD28 costimulation on lysis of malignant B cells from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia by autologous T cells.

To develop an effective antitumor immunotherapy for B-lineage non-Hodgkin s lymphoma, we constructed a tetravalent tandem diabody (tanDb) specific for both human CD19 (B-cell marker) and CD3 (T-cell antigen). Here, we report the effective killing of malignant primary B cells (…)

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01.04.2004 | NCBI PubMed: Effect of linker sequences between the antibody variable domains on the formation, stability and biological activity of a bispecific tandem diabody.

Bispecific single-chain Fv antibodies comprise four covalently linked immunoglobulin variable (V(H) and V(L) domains of two different specificities connected by three linkers. When assembled in the order V(H)(A)-linker(1)-V(L)(B)-linker(2)-V(H)(B)-linker(3)-V(L)(A), the (…)

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01.03.2004 | NCBI PubMed: Recent advances in the generation of bispecific antibodies for tumor immunotherapy.

Bispecific antibodies are currently in clinical and preclinical development for the treatment of various cancers. Designed to direct and enhance the body s immune response to specific tumors, bispecific antibodies consist of a targeting domain (typically an antibody fragment (…)

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01.02.2004 | NCBI PubMed: Immunosuppressive properties of anti-CD3 single-chain Fv and diabody.

The mouse anti-human CD3 monoclonal antibody OKT3 is a potent immunosuppressive agent used in clinical transplantation. However, OKT3 therapy is associated with unpleasant and often serious side effects which appear to result from cytokine release, complement activation and a (…)

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01.01.2004 | NCBI PubMed: Generation and production of engineered antibodies.

Various forms of recombinant monoclonal antibodies are being used increasingly, mainly for therapeutic purposes. This review specifically focuses on what is now called antibody engineering, and discusses the generation of chimeric, humanized, and fully human recombinant (…)

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27.06.2003 | NCBI PubMed: Effect of domain order on the activity of bacterially produced bispecific single-chain Fv antibodies.

Bispecific single-chain Fv antibodies comprise four covalently linked immunoglobulin variable (VH and VL) domains of two different specificities. Depending on the order of the VH and VL domains and on the length of peptides separating them, the single-chain molecule either (…)

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01.01.2003 | NCBI PubMed: Generation of antibody molecules through antibody engineering.

Methods Mol Biol. 2003;207:3-25. |-| Kipriyanov SM. |-| Affimed Therapeutics AG, Heidelberg, Germany.

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01.01.2003 | NCBI PubMed: Generation and characterization of bispecific tandem diabodies for tumor therapy.

Methods Mol Biol. 2003;207:323-33. |-| Kipriyanov SM. |-| Affimed Therapeutics AG, Heidelberg, Germany.

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01.07.2002 | NCBI PubMed: Synergistic antitumor effect of bispecific CD19 x CD3 and CD19 x CD16 diabodies in a preclinical model of non-Hodgkin s lymphoma.

To target NK cells against non-Hodgkin s lymphoma, we constructed a bispecific diabody (BsDb) with reactivity against both human CD19 and FcgammaRIII (CD16). Bacterially produced CD19 x CD16 BsDb specifically interacted with both CD19(+) and CD16(+) cells and exhibited (…)

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01.01.2002 | NCBI PubMed: High-level periplasmic expression and purification of scFvs.

Methods Mol Biol. 2002;178:333-41. |-| Kipriyanov SM. |-| Affimed Therapeutics AG, Ladenburg, Germany.

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01.01.2002 | NCBI PubMed: Generation of bispecific and tandem diabodies.

Methods Mol Biol. 2002;178:317-31. |-| Kipriyanov SM. |-| Affimed Therapeutics AG, Ladenburg, Germany.

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