Antibody World Summit 2004-SRI Conference 19-21 July 2004, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Steffen Nock1

  • 1Absalus Inc, 2464 Wyandotte Street, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. snock@abslus.com

Idrugs : the Investigational Drugs Journal
|October 8, 2004
PubMed

Overall, the sessions were well attended and a lot of questions were asked. Two-thirds of the speakers were from industry and the rest from academia. Of particular note, The academics presented cutting-edge science in the antibody discovery and development area. Business representatives from various therapeutic antibody companies discussed in detail various aspects and challenges of building a viable therapeutic antibody company.

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