BioVeris Launches New Products for Life Sciences
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GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 13 / -- BioVeris Corporation (NASDAQ:BIOV) announced today that it has introduced for sale eight new products for use in life science research. These new products are focused on meeting the increasing demand among pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for a means to measure potential immune response to protein-based therapeutics that are in development.
Two of the new products are pharmacodynamic biomarkers designed to measure cytokine levels that may be elevated in response to a drug treatment. These cytokine products detect human IL-2 and TNF-alpha, molecules that are up- regulated in inflammation and in many immune responses. Six of the new products can be used for immunogenicity testing, assay development, and hybridoma screening. These products compose a panel of antibodies that are prelabeled with BioVeris' detection label BV-TAG(TM) Plus and may be used to quantitate and characterize the following mouse antibodies: IgM, IgG, IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, and IgG3.
BioVeris' Contract Services Organization will also add the new products to its test menu and offer more testing options for its biopharma customers. More information on these products, including product specification sheets and application notes, is available on BioVeris' website at www.bioveris.com/.
BioVeris' life science products can be used by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities, and other contract research organizations (CRO) throughout most phases of drug discovery and development, including:
o validating targets identified through genomics;
o screening large numbers of compounds generated through combinatorial chemistry;
o re-testing and optimization of lead compounds; and
o nonclinical and clinical trial testing of drug candidates.
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and regulatory agencies are increasingly concerned about a patient's potential immune response to a protein-based therapeutic and they are attempting to screen out those molecules as early in development as possible. All of BioVeris' new products should be useful in these phases of drug development. The new products were developed to provide excellent sensitivity and dynamic range to customers, using more rapid and easier methods than competitive products on the market.
Immunogenicity testing is performed by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in order to characterize the ability of protein-based therapeutics to stimulate an immune response. Antibodies that result from an immune response to a protein-based drug can reduce its efficacy and cause significant side effects, such as allergic reactions. Because of serious side effects that have been reported, it has become increasingly necessary to determine if an immune response to protein-based drugs develops in patients by screening for the presence of antibodies, confirming their specificity, characterizing the type of antibodies present and determining whether they interfere with binding events. Immunogenicity testing is done during pre-clinical studies and may continue through the clinical trials required for regulatory approval. In some cases, the FDA requires additional testing after a drug has been approved.
BioVeris Corporation is a global health care and biosecurity company developing proprietary technologies in diagnostics and vaccinology. The Company is dedicated to the development and commercialization of innovative products and services for healthcare providers, their patients and their communities. BioVeris is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Further information about BioVeris is available at www.bioveris.com/ .
Source: BioVeris Corporation
CONTACT: George Migausky of BioVeris Corporation, +1-301-869-9800, ext.
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Web site: www.bioveris.com/
