RE: Sounds rather confident21 Dec 2020 19:43
Building on strong scientific expertise and application knowhow, Fusion Antibodies and Queen’s University Belfast will be using the Invest Northern Ireland grant to pioneer a new commercially-competitive antibody development platform. The novel technology will be capable of simultaneously creating COVID-19 antibodies of unparalleled quality: humanized, affinity- and selectivity-matured, stability- and developability-optimized. These state-of-the-art antibodies will have a SARS-CoV-2 virus neutralization ability, while also aiding diagnostic testing efforts.
At NICADA, we envisage a breakthrough antibody drug therapy targeting SARS-CoV-2 directly. The Invest Northern Ireland grant will enable us to exploit our SARS-CoV-2 virology expertise to help generate a new antibody development platform that will allow us to realize this vision, helping us to discover new drug targets to combat the devastating COVID-19 disease.”
Ultan Power, Professor of Molecular Virology at The Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast