AlgoNomics granted patent rights for Epibase

Immunogenicity screening tool for protein therapeutics granted a European patent.

09-Mar-2007

AlgoNomics NV announced that notice of grant has been received from the European Patent Office for a key patent covering its Epibase® technology. Epibase® is applied for the immunogenicity screening and optimization of biotherapeutics, such as therapeutic antibodies, biosimilars and vaccines. The patent relates to AlgoNomics' method to identify T-cell epitopes through the physicochemical interactions of the epitopes with their HLA Class-I and Class-II receptors.

Philippe Stas, COO of AlgoNomics: "We provide the state of the art in modeling of proteins, and this patent confirms our pioneering role in the field of immunogenicity screening and epitope identification."

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