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Twist Bioscience Expands Partnership with Invetx to Include Discovery of Best-in-Class Antibodies to Treat Multiple Diseases in Cats and Dogs
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its
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[{"type":"text","content":" SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nTwist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, and Invetx, a pioneer in protein-based therapeutics for animal health, today announced an extension to their existing antibody therapeutic partnership. The extended agreement covers the addition of next-generation synthetic antibody phage display technology for the discovery of novel monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for the treatment of multiple diseases in cats and dogs.\n\n“Our initial partnership with Twist to develop canine and feline TAO (Twist Antibody Optimization) platforms and use them to optimize development of our veterinary biotherapeutics has been very successful,” said Juergen Horn, PhD, chief executive officer of Invetx. “With this expanded agreement, we are adding complementary in vitro synthetic antibody discovery capabilities to our existing in vivo platform. This combination enables us to generate best-in-class therapeutics for an even broader range of targets to treat chronic and serious conditions in dogs and cats.”\n\nUnder the terms of the agreement, Twist Biopharma, a division of Twist Bioscience, leverages its “Library of Libraries,” a panel of synthetic antibody phage display libraries to identify potential therapeutic antibody candidates against specific feline and canine disease targets provided by Invetx. Twist has already generated fully feline and canine synthetic antibody libraries and from them, has begun to identify drug candidates. Twist will work with Invetx to validate and optimize any resulting new antibody candidates.\n\n“Our continued and expanded partnership with Invetx illustrates the power and broad applicability of our antibody discovery technology,” said Emily M. Leproust, PhD, chief executive officer and co-founder of Twist Bioscience. “Animal health, especially pet care, is an important and fast-growing market. As a dog lover and owner of multiple dogs, I’m personally pleased to see the development of targeted biologics in animal health and at Twist, we love supporting Invetx as they aim to extend and improve quality of life of our pets.”\n\nAbout Invetx\n\nInvetx is building the world’s premier biotechnology platform for protein-based therapeutics in animal health to ...