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First made-in-Singapore antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) approved to enter clinical trials

Precision Cancer Medicine thematic member, Dr Yong Wei Peng was part of a team who developed an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), the first of its kind to be created in Singapore. A collaborative effort between A*STAR’s Bioprocessing Technology Institute and Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, the Experimental Drug Development Centre, and the National Cancer Centre Singapore, this ADC selectively target cancer cells present across a range of solid tumours.

The first human trials are set to be conducted with patients with solid tumours. It is the first made-in-Singapore drug to receive approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to do so.

 

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