Coulter: Architecting antibodies
Antibody therapies have a long history of ups and downs, the present being a period of renewed enthusiasm following the success of Centocor Inc.'s ReoPro anti-platelet antibody. One of the lessons of the past 20 years is that not all antibodies are created equal. The making of a good therapeutic requires a combination of the right antibody, the right antigen and the right conjugate.
Coulter Pharmaceutical Inc. was founded in 1995 by Coulter Corp. and InterWest Partners based on their belief that it has found a combination worth pursuing. Coulter Pharmaceutical's lead compound is a radioimmunotherapy consisting of an anti-B1 antibody conjugated with iodine 131. The antibody was discovered at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 1978 and approved in 1982 as a diagnostic owned by Coulter Corp...