GigaGen Publishes Research on Company’s Recombinant Hyperimmunes in Nature Biotechnology

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GigaGen Inc., a biotechnology company advancing transformative antibody drugs for infectious diseases, transplant rejection and checkpoint resistant cancers, and a subsidiary of Grifols, announced today publication of research, titled, “Generation of recombinant hyperimmune globulins from diverse B cell repertoires,” in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Biotechnology. The data describes GigaGen’s proprietary technology for the production of a new class of antibody drug, “recombinant hyperimmune globulins,” which include its novel COVID-19 therapy, GIGA-2050. This program recently received an Investigational New Drug (IND) approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the initiation of a Phase 1 clinical trial. A previous version of the data was made available through bioRxiv.

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