Key Patent Covering Click-to-Release Granted in the United States

A key patent that encompasses the therapeutic application scope of the Click-to-Release platform has been granted in the US (US 10,967,069 B2), further strengthening Tagworks’ IP portfolio.

The patent titled “BIO-ORTHOGONAL DRUG ACTIVATION”, covers the invention of the pyridazine elimination reaction that underlies the Click-to-Release approach. The patent protects a broad scope of TCO linkers and tetrazine activators and their application in selective on-target release and activation of a wide range of constructs, including small molecule prodrugs, antibody-drug conjugates, and caged proteins.

Tagworks wins 2019 World ADC Award for Best Publication

Tagworks is pleased to announce that on the 10th of October, it won the World ADC Award for Best Publication during the 10th World ADC Summit 2019 in San Diego. The World ADC Awards exist to commend excellence across nine categories within antibody-drug conjugate research and development.

Tagworks applies its Click-to-Release platform for the selective release of anticancer drugs in the tumor microenvironment. The  publication Rossin et al. Nature Comm. 2018, 9, 1,  1484, is the result of a collaboration between 5 companies (Tagworks, Avipep, SyMO-Chem, Syncom, Levena) and the Radboud University & Medical Center. It demonstrates strong therapeutic proof of concept of a first in class click-cleavable ADC, expanding the scope of ADC therapy to non-internalizing cancer receptors. Tagworks and partners are pleased that the jury recognised the impact of this novel approach.

 

Tagworks featured in Nature Biotechnology news

“Click chemistry targets antibody-drug conjugates for the clinic”. Nature Biotechnology news reports on the current scope and status of the use of click chemistry in vivo, including Tagworks programs, and concludes that bioorthogonal chemistry, already a workhorse of drug discovery research, is ready for the leap into human testing.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41587-019-00017-4