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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2024

The present and future of bispecific antibodies for cancer therapy.

Christian Klein, Ulrich Brinkmann, Janice M Reichert, Roland E Kontermann

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06757426 (Prospective Observational Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Immunomodulatory Therapies in Refractory Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases), which is not on this map. Cited by 283 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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283citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
144.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06757426 not yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Prospective Observational Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Immunomodulatory Therapies in Refractory Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases

TypeobservationalSponsorGroupe français d'étude des Maladies Inflammatoires de loeilRan2025 to 2028Enrolled80ConditionsAutoimmune Diseases, Inflammatory Diseases
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

283 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 357 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Christian KleinRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland. christian.klein.ck1@roche.com.ORCID 0000-0001-7594-7280
Ulrich BrinkmannRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Munich, Penzberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5558-0212
Janice M ReichertThe Antibody Society, Framingham, MA, USA.
Roland E KontermannInstitute of Cell Biology and Immunology, University Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. roland.kontermann@izi.uni-stuttgart.de.
Roche Pharma AG (Germany) · DERoche (Switzerland) · CHUniversity of Stuttgart · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bispecific antibodies (bsAbs) enable novel mechanisms of action and/or therapeutic applications that cannot be achieved using conventional IgG-based antibodies. Consequently, development of these molecules has garnered substantial interest in the past decade and, as of the end of 2023, 14 bsAbs have been approved: 11 for the treatment of cancer and 3 for non-oncology indications. bsAbs are available in different formats, address different targets and mediate anticancer function via different molecular mechanisms. Here, we provide an overview of recent developments in the field of bsAbs for cancer therapy. We focus on bsAbs that are approved or in clinical development, including bsAb-mediated dual modulators of signalling pathways, tumour-targeted receptor agonists, bsAb-drug conjugates, bispecific T cell, natural killer cell and innate immune cell engagers, and bispecific checkpoint inhibitors and co-stimulators. Finally, we provide an outlook into next-generation bsAbs in earlier stages of development, including trispecifics, bsAb prodrugs, bsAbs that induce degradation of tumour targets and bsAbs acting as cytokine mimetics.

Indexed as

Antibodies, BispecificNeoplasmsHumansSignal TransductionAntibodies, Bispecific

Identifiers

PMID38448606
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