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ReviewAntibody therapeutics2021

US FDA-approved therapeutic antibodies with high-concentration formulation: summaries and perspectives.

Shawn Shouye Wang, Yifei Susie Yan, Kin Ho

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Review in Antibody therapeutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Shawn Shouye WangCMC Management, WuXi Biologics, 1 Cedarbrook Drive, Cranbury, NJ 08512, USA.
Yifei Susie YanBiologics CMC Leadership training program, WuXi Biologics, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Kin HoCMC Management, WuXi Biologics, 1 Cedarbrook Drive, Cranbury, NJ 08512, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thirty four (34) of the total US FDA approved 103 therapeutic antibody drugs, accounts for one third of the total approved mAbs, are formulated with high protein concentration (100 mg/mL or above) which are the focus of this article. The highest protein concentration of these approved mAbs is 200 mg/mL. The dominant administration route is subcutaneous (76%). Our analysis indicates that it may be rational to implement a platform formulation containing polysorbate, histidine and sucrose to accelerate high concentration formulation development for antibody drugs. Since 2015, the FDA approval numbers are significantly increased which account for 76% of the total approval numbers, i.e., 26 out of 34 highly concentrated antibodies. Thus, we believe that the high concentration formulations of antibody drugs will be the future trend of therapeutic antibody formulation development, regardless of the challenges of highly concentrated protein formulations.

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administration routeapprovaldosageexcipientformulationformulation compositionhigh concentrationlyophilizationpre-filled syringesubcutaneoustherapeutic antibodiesUS FDA

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PMCPMC8664682

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