Comments on: Therapeutic Antibodies: The Next Generation http://pharmaweblog.com/blog/2005/09/22/therapeutic-antibodies-the-next-generation/ Pharmaceutical and biotech science and business Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:19:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Scott Hampton http://pharmaweblog.com/blog/2005/09/22/therapeutic-antibodies-the-next-generation/#comment-13 Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:39:00 +0000 http://pharmaweblog.com/blog/2005/09/22/therapeutic-antibodies-the-next-generation/#comment-13 We've been applying some of these products as we can get them, and there is some amazing stuff in the early pipe. But I'm wondering when they are going to run out of snappy marketeer names. We had a discussion about this at our weekly brainstorming/fantasy meeting. What we want is a simple category scheme. I'm proposing that anyone coming up with yet another fancy chain of amino acids tells us: Weight, number of intended action sites, selectivity of each active site, variability of each active site, relationship of intended action sites, non-intended actions, etc. Pragmatically, whatever names these things get, we're just about at the point where this stuff is engineering instead of science -- with sufficient cleverness you can almost program cellular function right now. We’ve been applying some of these products as we can get them, and there is some amazing stuff in the early pipe. But I’m wondering when they are going to run out of snappy marketeer names. We had a discussion about this at our weekly brainstorming/fantasy meeting. What we want is a simple category scheme. I’m proposing that anyone coming up with yet another fancy chain of amino acids tells us: Weight, number of intended action sites, selectivity of each active site, variability of each active site, relationship of intended action sites, non-intended actions, etc.

Pragmatically, whatever names these things get, we’re just about at the point where this stuff is engineering instead of science — with sufficient cleverness you can almost program cellular function right now.

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