AbbVie Partnership On CD71 Gives CytomX Big Upfront, Co-Promotion Potential
Executive Summary
Antibody-drug conjugates have taken a back seat to cancer immunotherapy as the hot modality in oncology of late, but AbbVie Inc. and CytomX Therapeutics Inc. unveiled a partnership on April 20 to develop an ADC in a deal that CytomX cites as further validation of its Probody technology platform.
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