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Coulter looks to pipeline deals

October 9, 2000 7:00 AM UTC

With its Bexxar tositumomab under review at the FDA, Coulter Pharmaceutical Inc. hopes to create a pipeline by competing against numerous other companies to in-license drug candidates. To make itself a more attractive partner in the therapeutic antibody arena, CLTR last week obtained access to a technology that the company said will provide it with a stable, high-level expression system for recombinant antibodies while simultaneously providing faster recombinant protein production for research.

CLTR (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Cobra Therapeutics Ltd. (Keele, U.K.), a subsidiary of ML Labs (LSE:MLB, Warrington, U.K.), will develop and market Cobra's Ubiquitous Chromatin Opening Elements (UCOEs) (see B3). UCOEs are designed to produce high and stable expression of transfected genes...