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Interview: PharmAbcine's Hopes Rise As Tanibirumab Set For Keytruda Combo Trials

 
• By Jung Won Shin

PharmAbcine CEO Jin-San Yoo talks to Scrip about the company’s overseas clinical trial strategy, pipeline assets, and ambitions for lead candidate TTAC-0001, which the company sees as superior to Avastin. The Korean biotech, which is engaged in various global collaborations on its investigative antibody drugs, hopes that tie-ups can lead to bigger outcomes going forward.

Human antibody

Following the successful completion of a Phase IIa study in Australia for its lead asset TTAC-0001 (tanibirumab) for recurrent glioblastoma, South Korea's PharmAbcine Inc. is set to launch diverse clinical trials for the fully humanized therapeutic antibody as well as for other pipeline assets, for some of which research and collaboration deals with Merck & Co. Inc. have already been agreed. 

The Korean firm's main emphasis at present is on TTAC-0001, and a relative lack of side-effects and adverse reactions in...

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