SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – July 6, 2022 – Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced the opening of its new Twist Boston location in Quincy, Massachusetts.

“This is a year of growth for Twist, as we work to bring the Factory of the Future online in Oregon while expanding our in vivo antibody discovery capacity through our new Twist Boston location,” said Emily M. Leproust, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Twist Bioscience. “Twist is one of the first biotech companies to open a site in Quincy, and we were pleased to find an ideal space that fits our aggressive growth plans to serve our biopharma partners in accelerating antibody discovery for a wide range of therapeutic targets.”

Twist Boston, formerly known as Abveris, was acquired by Twist Bioscience in November 2021 to add in vivo antibody discovery expertise to Twist Biopharma’s antibody discovery and optimization capabilities using robust, precisely written synthetic libraries. Twist Boston empowers the development of the next generation of biologics, cell therapies, vaccines, and diagnostics by using its DiversimAb™ family of hyperimmune mouse models to complete discovery and characterization services for global biopharma leaders. Antibodies discovered using the DiversimAb platform can be humanized using the Twist antibody optimization (TAO) platform to develop superior biologics for rapid clinical advancement. The new Twist Boston location boasts state-of-the-art antibody discovery workflow tools, including a total of four Berkeley Lights Beacon^® Optofluidic Platforms, for increased screening capacity for discovery projects necessitating ultra-rapid high-content function forward screening. Twist has the option to expand the size of the site to accommodate future growth.

About Twist Boston

Twist Boston provides premium in vivo antibody discovery services to the biopharma industry. The company applies advanced immunization methods combined with B cell screening and hybridoma-based antibody discovery technologies to provide comprehensive gene-to-antibody discovery services. Twist Boston is developing the next generation of biologics, cell therapies, vaccines, and diagnostics in partnership with global biopharma leaders. Additional information about Twist Boston, also known as Abveris, is available at www.abveris.com.

About Twist Bioscience Corporation

Twist Bioscience is a leading and rapidly growing synthetic biology and genomics company that has developed a disruptive DNA synthesis platform to industrialize the engineering of biology. The core of the platform is a proprietary technology that pioneers a new method of manufacturing synthetic DNA by “writing” DNA on a silicon chip. Twist is leveraging its unique technology to manufacture a broad range of synthetic DNA-based products, including synthetic genes, tools for next-generation sequencing (NGS) preparation, and antibody libraries for drug discovery and development. Twist is also pursuing longer-term opportunities in digital data storage in DNA and biologics drug discovery. Twist makes products for use across many industries including healthcare, industrial chemicals, agriculture and academic research.

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CONTACTS:

For Twist Bioscience:

Angela Bitting
SVP, Corporate Affairs
925- 202-6211

abitting@twistbioscience.com 

Abveris Named as One of the Best Places to Work

 Canton, MA—March 10, 2022—The Business Intelligence Group today announced that it has awarded

Abveris, a division of Twist Bioscience, a Best Places to Work 2022. The organization sought to identify companies that are actively working to improve their own performance through efforts to challenge employees in environments that make work fun and engaging. 

“We are deeply honored to have received the Best Places to Work award for the second consecutive year,” commented Tracey Mullen, VP, General Manager of Abveris, a division of Twist Bioscience. “At the heart of our division is a diverse team of collectively driven antibody enthusiasts who are united under a shared passion for technological advancement and unbridled scientific curiosity. Our team is our greatest asset and key to our success, and this award is a testament to that.”

“Congratulations to Abveris for building a workplace focused on employee engagement and performance,” said Maria Jimenez, Chief Nominations Officer of Business Intelligence Group. “This clearly was the most challenging year for many companies, and it is clear this is a great place to work and employee feedback is not only listened to, but acted upon. Congratulations to the entire team.”

About Abveris

Abveris, a division of Twist Bioscience, provides premium in vivo antibody discovery services to the biopharma industry. Abveris applies advanced immunization methods combined with B cell screening and hybridoma-based antibody discovery technologies to provide comprehensive gene-to-antibody discovery services. Abveris is developing the next generation of biologics, cell therapies, vaccines, and diagnostics in partnership with global biopharma leaders. Additional information about Abveris is available at www.abveris.com.

About Business Intelligence Group

The Business Intelligence Group was founded with the mission of recognizing true talent and superior performance in the business world. Unlike other industry and business award programs, business executives—those with experience and knowledge—judge the programs. The organization’s proprietary and unique scoring system selectively measures performance across multiple business domains and then rewards those companies whose achievements stand above those of their peers.

Contacts

Tracey Mullen, VP/GM

Twist Bioscience

+1(781)206-2949

tmullen@twistbioscience.com

Maria Jimenez
Business Intelligence Group
+1 (909) 529-2737
jmaria@bintelligence.com

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 – The research collaboration will leverage synergies between the Abilita Bio EMP™ and Abveris DiversimAb™ platforms to identify novel therapeutic antibodies that target historically intractable GPCRs for the treatment of cancer

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Canton, MA, USA--(San Francisco, CA, USA)--Abveris, Inc. (“Abveris”) announced today that it has entered into an antibody discovery partnership with Foundery Innovations, Inc. (“Foundery Innovations”) for the discovery of monoclonal antibodies to support the development of novel biotherapeutic drugs. Under the terms of the agreement, Abveris will utilize its proprietary DiversimAb^TM platform in combination with its next-generation rapid B cell screening platform, powered by the Berkeley Lights Beacon^®, to identify antibody drug candidates targeting antigens nominated by Foundery Innovations. The DiversimAb platform is propelled by a genetically engineered hyperimmune mouse family for maximum epitopic diversity and advantageous IP opportunities.

“The team at Foundery Innovations is positioned to redefine immunotherapy with a strong portfolio of tractable targets,” commented Tracey Mullen, Chief Executive Officer of Abveris. “Partnership with Abveris provides advanced, best-in-class antibody discovery through high-resolution single B cell screening, which will enable rapid clinical advancement for these novel therapeutic products.”

“The enthusiasm, expertise, and track record of the Abveris team was evident from our first meeting. We were particularly impressed by Abveris’ interest in seeking optimal screening strategies for our challenging targets. Foundery looks forward to a productive and long-term partnership with Abveris” said Foundery CEO, Michel Streuli.

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MADE BY SCIENTISTS, FOR SCIENTISTS

BEST ENJOYED AFTER A LONG DAY in the lab

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“The team at Saccharo has identified a novel druggable target of great potential and we are honored to be working with them to identify candidate antibodies for clinical development,” commented Garren Hilow, Chief Business Officer of Abveris. “By pairing best-in-class discovery tools with our team of impassioned scientists, we believe that we offer Saccharo the best chance of success in discovering and optimizing the biologic they require for clinical advancement.”

"Saccharo is delighted to be working with Abveris. We see Abveris’s scientists, experience, skills and technology platforms as offering the best potential for success,” said Sherry Martin-Moe, PhD, President/CEO and Co-Founder of Saccharo. “Importantly, they have been real partners in understanding the science and developing a sound strategy to produce the best possible antibodies for Saccharo to take to the clinic.”

Abveris and Berkeley Lights have published a joint application note on Rapid High-Resolution Screening of Plasma B Cells to Identify Antibody Lead Candidates. This document covers a variety of applications and cutting-edge cell-based assays developed by Abveris using Berkeley Lights's Beacon platform. The following contents are discussed in the note: 

• Deliver anti-idiotypic antibodies with competitive ligand-blocking activity in half the time of a traditional hybridoma screen

• Discover a diverse panel of rare, high-affinity antibodies that could not be discovered using phage display against an antigen with a completely homologous off-target product

• Develop an adherent cell-based binding assay that enables discovery of lead candidate sequences against a challenging membrane-bound target in just 29 days

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"The Immunitas team is uniquely positioned to identify novel therapeutic oncology targets using their innovative single cell genomics-based techniques. Pairing the Immunitas platform with efficient discovery of highly diverse panels of antibodies will result in the rapid identification of therapeutic-quality antibodies," commented Tracey Mullen, CEO of Abveris. "Our function-forward approach to antibody discovery will enable Abveris to deliver fully validated drug candidates in accelerated timelines. Ultimately, the synergy between the two platforms will result in faster delivery of targeted therapies to the patients who need them."    

"We are excited to collaborate with Abveris to accelerate the pace of discovery for some of our new antibody therapeutics," said Jeff Goldberg, CEO of Immunitas. "Our platform rapidly generates and validates new targets for treating challenging cancers. Working with Abveris will enable us to quickly identify and select highly specific antibodies for those targets, so that we can take the best antibody forward to address the needs of particular patient populations."

 

About Abveris: 

Abveris is Boston's premier antibody discovery company providing contract research services to the biopharma industry. Abveris applies advanced immunization methods combined with B cell screening and hybridoma-based antibody discovery technologies to provide comprehensive gene-to-antibody discovery services. Abveris is developing the next generation of biologics, cell therapies, vaccines, and diagnostics in partnership with global leaders in biopharma. Find additional information about Abveris at www.ABVERIS.com.

 

Contact for Abveris:

Ryan Kelly

Director of Business Development

rkelly@abveris.com

781-562-1170 x1002

Abveris is hiring and we want to help you get the job! Here are some guidelines from our hiring team to help you make your application stand out. Then, head over to our career page to apply!

The Job Search: CLICK TO APPLY

Online job postings receive floods of applications because of the convenience of applying through the internet. While applying to Abveris, please make sure to submit all required materials (incomplete applications not considered). It's important to follow up on positions that spark your interest. If you apply to Abveris and haven't heard back from us, contact us via phone or email.  Advocate for yourself and be patient while awaiting a response. 

Resume

Tailor your resume to the application and format it so that it is easy to read. We receive many applications and want to be able to identify key information quickly. Use a professional email address, a professional font like Times New Roman or Arial, and use action words in the past tense to describe your previous work experiences. Avoid using phrases like "responsibilities include" or words like "tries." Instead, use action words like "established," "prepared," "improved," etc.

"The most important tool you have on a resume is language" -Jay Samit

Cover Letter

Address specific reasons why you want to work at Abveris and directly indicate how your strengths align with our mission. Read through the job description and use your cover letter to explicitly show that you demonstrated each of the skills the job description lists. The same job experience can be used to illustrate vastly different abilities, depending on how you explain it.

The Interview

We hire people who make us excited to come to work. Interviews allow our team the opportunity to decide whether there is a good fit. We asked our team to list a few tips for our interviewees. Here's what they said:

• Let your excitement for the job and the company shine! Research the company before your interview, test your understanding of the role, and brainstorm questions.  
• Show us how your job experiences have prepared you to help bring our team to the next level. In your opinion, where are you strongest, and how can we best support you?
• Help us understand what drives you as a person. Don't be afraid to show your personality! We are a small, tight-knit team, and we like to have fun together.

Buoyancy

Though stressful, job hunting can be a time of great excitement. Don't get discouraged on your journey to a new career. Our team values persistence, and we are looking forward to hearing from you!

When a leader has the innate ability to help those around them become better, stronger all while focusing on the future, those abilities are rewarded.

That is why, effective today, Tracey Mullen will take over as Chief Executive Officer of Abveris. This change allows me to focus more on strategic partnerships and business development as Chief Business Officer. This decision was entirely my -own and, as the primary business owner of Abveris, a choice I believe is the right direction for our company.

During Tracey’s tenure at Abveris she has been responsible for increasing our average monthly revenue by 160%, more than doubling our company headcount, and co-leading the implementation of the Beacon B cell screening platform. A native of Connecticut, she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical-Biological Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and her Executive Masters of Business Administration from Quantic School of Business and Technology.

Abveris is a scientific company and should be led by an elite scientist. With a strong focus on cutting-edge science and engineering, we at Abveris have the ability to change the future of medicine. We are now on a path to ensure this is our legacy. As we move out of the startup stage it is time for a new leader who has the skills I deem most valuable for our future: scientific knowledge, operational excellence, and courage.

Tracey is the most capable, talented, courageous and emotionally intelligent professional I have ever had the opportunity to know. She has earned the respect of everyone on our team and every one of our partners.  She is one of those rare leaders who makes everyone around her stronger and better — the rising tide that lifts all boats, not just a select few.

She is a glowing example of the next generation of leadership: a combination of subject matter expertise and sharp business acumen. There is a significant yet rare advantage in a leader like Tracey, who possesses an extensive understanding of our industry’s business operations as well as the intricate, technical details of our company’s work on the front lines.

I believe that a CEO should be the personification of her company’s brand. Tracey is Abveris personified: smart, hardworking, science-forward, deeply committed to success and fiercely competitive. I can’t think of a better embodiment of our premium, elite, yet approachable brand. Abveris has worked for years to hone the right brand, in the right market, with the right offering at the right time. Now that we have the right leader for the next phase of our company growth, we will move with more precision toward the opportunities that await us. 

Our business is, and has always been, to make quality biologic drugs. The antibodies we deliver will help cure disease and increase the quality of life globally. It is imperative that we continue to push ourselves as an organization to do the best job we possibly can so we can help make the world a better, healthier place. With Tracey making organization-wide decisions, Abveris will continue successfully fulfilling our mission to deliver the next generation of life-saving therapies.

In health and to our future,

Garren Hilow

Chief Business Officer, Creator, Owner

Made by mAb scientists, for mAb scientists

BEST ENJOYED AFTER A LONG DAY IN THE LAB

We teamed up with our neighbors at Castle Island Brewery to bring you specialty beers that mAb scientists are sure to love! Introducing mAb Scientist IPA and Six Pack mAbs Lager. Our team designed some hilarious labels and the Castle Island team came through with some delicious lager and IPA options. 

We'll be sending out cases of beer to our partners, but we also recognize many of you are working from home right now. Click below to provide your address information for us to send you some free brews! 

mAb Scientist IPA: OUR FLAGSHIP BEER

This beer is smooth but punchy; balanced yet intense. Despite the colossal amount of hops crammed into this beer, it’s still remarkably approachable for pros and rookies alike!

Our team held a naming competition for our flagship beer. After a close vote with many great names in the running, mAbScientist IPA rose to victory.  You may be asking: why does she have antibodies for hands? Fun fact: our monthly all-hands meeting is called "Monthly mAbs For Hands" after our all hands on approach to antibody discovery. 

Six Pack mAbs Lager: A SUMMER SPECIAL

Whether you’re catching the game, conquering the trail, or walking in the door from your commute home, sometimes you just need a beer. Brewed distinctively for the everyday, this classic American Lager is light and crisp, and will have you reaching for another sip. So kick your feet up, breathe easy, and crack into a can of this liquid bliss."

This beer label speaks for itself. We all love the beach this time of the year, and we love showing off the muscles we've built while sitting on our butts all day at the biosafety cabinets. 

About Abveris: 

Abveris is Boston's premier antibody discovery company providing contract research services to the biopharma industry. Abveris applies advanced immunization methods combined with B cell screening and hybridoma-based antibody discovery technologies to provide comprehensive gene-to-antibody discovery services. Abveris is developing the next generation of biologics, cell therapies, vaccines, and diagnostics in partnership with global leaders in biopharma. Additional information about Abveris is available at www.ABVERIS.com.

About Castle Island Brewery: 

Castle Island Brewery is based out of Norwood, Ma and can be found in fridges across New England. Their tasteful, easy to drink selection of beers is perfect for all beer drinkers from the beginner to the beer expert. Castle Island has their main staples, including the Keeper, American Lager, White Ale, and CandlePin but they are always making new exciting beers to keep up with their loyal customers evolving tastes! Check out more on their website: www.castleislandbeer.com

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Canton, MA, USA – Abveris, Inc. (“Abveris”) announced today that it has entered into an antibody discovery partnership with Nkarta, Inc. (“Nkarta”) for the discovery of fully-human monoclonal antibodies to support the advancement of Nkarta’s novel cell-based therapeutics. Under the terms of the agreement, Abveris will apply its next-generation B cell screening platform (powered by the Berkeley Lights Beacon^®) to rapidly discover fully human monoclonal antibodies using the Trianni Mouse^®, an industry-leading transgenic mouse R&D platform. 

“We have worked with the Trianni Mouse across several therapeutic antibody programs and have been impressed with the success of these campaigns,” commented Colby Souders, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Abveris. “Abveris is uniquely positioned to dramatically shorten therapeutic discovery timelines while enhancing candidate selection by pairing optimized immunization methods in the Trianni Mouse with high-resolution single B cell screening enabled by the Berkeley Lights Beacon.”    

“We believe this partnership brings together powerful discovery technologies with the potential for accelerating Nkarta’s pipeline of natural killer cell therapy candidates,” said James Trager, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Nkarta. “We look forward to working closely with the Abveris team on the identification of targeted antibodies ideally suited for our cell engineering and manufacturing platform.”

“The Nkarta team is situated to redefine the way we think about cell therapies, and we are delighted to be working with their team of impassioned scientists,” added Tracey Mullen, MBA, Chief Operating Officer of Abveris. “This partnership highlights our continued commitment to working with organizations leveraging antibody therapeutics in innovative and transformative ways.” 

"We at Trianni are thrilled that the partnership of Abveris and Nkarta includes the use of the Trianni Mice. It is gratifying to contribute to the program of creating novel antibody therapeutics," said Matthias Wabl, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Trianni, Inc.

About Abveris: 

Abveris is Boston's premier antibody discovery company providing contract research services to the biopharma industry. Abveris applies advanced immunization methods combined with B cell screening and hybridoma-based antibody discovery technologies to provide comprehensive gene-to-antibody discovery services. Abveris is developing the next generation of biologics, cell therapies, vaccines, and diagnostics in partnership with global leaders in biopharma. Additional information about Abveris is available at www.ABVERIS.com.

About Trianni, Inc: 

Trianni, Inc. is a privately held biotech company specializing in antibody discovery technology. Trianni’s lead technology, the Trianni Mouse®, is a powerful, next-generation platform enabling efficient generation of fully-human monoclonal antibodies. Trianni’s transgenic platform leverages a novel approach to design made possible by advances in DNA synthesis and genomic modification technology. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Additional information about Trianni is available through its corporate website, www.TRIANNI.com.

Contact for Abveris:

Ryan Kelly

Director of Business Development

rkelly@abveris.com

781-562-1170 x1002

Contact for Trianni:

Elizabeth Tran

Marketing manager

elizabeth.tran@trianni.com

(415) 231-0257

Did you know that laboratory facilities often use 5-10x more energy compared to similarly-sized “normal” office spaces? Abveris is enacting sweeping changes to our laboratory and business operations to reduce our company's carbon footprint. 

In this post, we’ll detail our initiatives built to dramatically reduce the carbon cost of our shipping, including adopting carbon-neutral shipping methods and material reuse programs. We’ll share tips to implement similar changes at your company, too. 

Cold-chain shipping:

ESSENTIAL FOR RESEARCH & ENVIRONMENTALLY COSTLY 

Shipping is an important part of scientific collaborations today, which often extend beyond state and country lines. Since our founding five years ago, we’ve collaborated with scientists in more than 15 countries across four continents. For shipment of temperature-sensitive materials, we often rely on energy-intensive cold chain shipping methods that require additional packaging and refrigerants like ice packs, dry ice or liquid nitrogen. 

Initiative:

Carbon Offsets & Carbon-Neutral Shipping

Carbon offset programs allow small companies and individuals to participate in environmental projects to balance out their own carbon footprints. Abveris participates in verified carbon offset programs to support reforestation, landfill gas destruction, wastewater treatment, and methane destruction. 

You may be asking: how can I use carbon-neutral shipping?

Major shipping companies like UPS offer carbon-neutral shipping options. You'll be surprised to find that, often, the switch to carbon-neutral shipping will only impact shipment cost by $1 or less. 

Initiative:

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

We are reducing our use of virgin materials by reusing the insulated shippers sent to us by our suppliers. We receive many high-quality insulated shipping containers used for the shipment of non-hazardous materials, like culture media.  Simply by reusing shipping boxes, we able to cut our use of virgin materials in half without sacrificing any quality of the materials we deliver to you.   

You may be asking: how can I start a box reuse program? 

Reusing a box should be easy in most BSL1 and BSL2 laboratory settings. Here are some quick tips to make sure you’re preparing the box appropriately to ship without issue:

• Cover all outer box labels from the box's previous journey. 

  Cover all of the labels on the box, even those that might still be relevant. We recommend using blank white shipping labels to “white-out” and cover all of the stickers. Add the new box labels on top of the “white-out.”  This is important to ensure there are no delays in your shipment. 

• When in doubt, throw it out.

  If the box is structurally compromised or potentially contaminated, it should not be reused. Only use boxes in good condition to keep your precious samples (and the people handling them) safe. 

• For international shipments, it’s best to use new.

  During international shipping, it is best practice to present a tidy, clearly labeled product for customs agents. Additionally, for long distance shipments, it is important to select a container with well-defined limitations so you know how long the box will keep your samples cool. During long-distance journeys there may be limited opportunities for dry ice or ice pack replenishment. 

On-cell receptor functionality is a crucial threshold for drug development. By leveraging high content screening in antibody discovery workflows, you are able to improve the likelihood of campaign success at early stages of development. Join us for our webinar hosted by our COO Tracey Mullen and our friends at Sartorius, where Tracey will walk through a case study outlining how we incorporate this technology for antibody discovery projects targeting cell surface receptors. 

Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 11 am EDT

Overview:

The use of monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics to target and treat cancer is considered to be one of the most successful therapeutic strategy within the oncology field to date. Specific cell surface antigen recognition is paramount to the success of these drugs, necessitating high resolution, early stage characterization of lead antibody drug candidates prior to preclinical development. In this webinar, Tracey Mullen, COO of Abveris, will review an antibody discovery campaign targeting a cell surface receptor implicated in cancer. Methods for immunization, antibody discovery, and subsequent functional characterization will be detailed.

Who Should Attend:

• Antibody discovery scientists and researchers engaged in therapeutic drug discovery in oncology indications

• Anyone interested in learning more about incorporating high-throughput flow cytometry analysis into early stage research and development

Speakers:

Tracey Mullen, Chief Operating Officer, Abveris

How can we access greater antibody diversity through the plasma B cell repertoire? How can we down-select lead candidates in 1 day? Join Abveris and Berkeley Lights for an exclusive webinar opportunity to learn how we're redefining the boundaries of antibody discovery with the Berkeley Lights Beacon platform.

Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 11 am EDT

Overview:

As the complexity of therapeutic targets continues to evolve, more efficient and predictive identification of pertinent antibody candidates becomes increasingly valuable. Incorporating state-of-the-art, high-resolution discovery and antibody characterization tools like the Berkeley Lights platform into discovery workflows enables rapid and reliable selection of lead candidates more effectively than traditional techniques. Elucidating function early during screening and development can enhance candidate triage, as opposed to relying on brute-force methods to characterize large panels containing primarily non-functional clones. Optimization of the discovery platform using the Beacon instrument and case studies will be outlined.

Speakers:

Colby A. Souders, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Abveris

Canton, MA, USA and Newark, DE, USA, April 8, 2020 - Abveris, Inc., a leader in contract research antibody discovery, today announced the extension of a strategic collaboration with ACROBiosystems, an internationally recognized manufacturer of recombinant proteins.

Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will leverage their core technologies to construct streamlined offerings to accelerate the pace of antibody discovery research.

By the terms of the agreement, over 1600 recombinant proteins for biologic drug discovery and development available in the ACROBiosystems catalog will be made available to Abveris customers to facilitate rapid initiation of antibody discovery projects.

"Our collaboration with ACROBiosystems is a highly valuable resource for Abveris and all of our partner companies,” commented Ryan Kelly, Director of Business Development at Abveris. "Our access to ACRO’s high-quality “off-the-shelf” reagents allows us to identify diverse, high affinity antibody clones in as little as one month total.”

“We are delighted to collaborate with Abveris, who shows their expertise in therapeutic antibody development. Their special DiversimAb^TM platform and single B cell screening platform speed up the antibody generation process while providing maximum diversity and affinity of the antibody candidates. It delivers additional benefits and comforts to scientists with using ACRO’s high-quality reagents and Abveris’s technologies as a combination,” commented Simin He, Marketing Manager of ACROBiosystems.

About Abveris: 

Abveris is a Boston-area specialty antibody discovery contract research organization located in Canton, Massachusetts, USA. Abveris partners with large and small biopharmaceutical companies to discover novel therapeutic products and critical reagent antibodies using diverse platforms, including the proprietary DiversimAb™ hyperimmune mouse technology. Additional information about Abveris is available at www.abveris.com.

About ACROBiosystems: 

ACROBiosystems is a leading manufacturer of recombinant proteins and other critical reagents to support the development of target therapeutics. The company employs an application-oriented development strategy, with a particular focus on product design, quality control and solution-based support. Our products and services enable anyone in the field of drug development to have a more intuitive and streamlined process. Check out more details at: www.acrobiosystems.com/.

Contact for Abveris:

Ryan Kelly

Director of Business Development

rkelly@abveris.com

781-562-1170 x1002

Contact for ACROBiosystems:

Grace Wang

Marketing Specialist

Grace.wang@acrobiosystems.com

408-320-2195

Abveris, Inc. 

March 18, 2020

RE: Staying Open for Science, COVID Response

To Our Valued Customers & Partners,

The COVID outbreak has caused significant disruptions to the science community worldwide, and your ongoing antibody discovery projects shouldn’t cause additional stress. Abveris will remain open for business and continue to provide contract research services during the state of emergency even if a "shelter-in-place" order is called. 

Abveris has multiple ongoing projects that directly contribute to drug development efforts for underserved diseases and indications (including COVID-19 and multiple other viral agents). Our end-to-end antibody discovery services are fully operational and we’re accepting new hybridoma and B cell screening discovery projects. Are you delaying your discovery work because of COVID-related antigen production delays? We can help.

Schedule 15 minutes with us today to discuss your project.

We are closely monitoring communications from the Massachusetts State and Federal Governments regarding measures to prevent the spread of the virus. Abveris has implemented mandatory work-from-home policies for non-essential staff, and employee schedules have been adjusted to promote social distancing. 

We welcome you to lean on us during these turbulent times. As always, we look forward to supporting your science.

Sincerely,

Garren Hilow

CEO of Abveris

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents,

which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant

- Horace

Updated 3/6/20: Event cancelled due to concerns surrounding spread of COVID-19 virus. 

A note from the event organizers:

Thank you for your interest in our event, and we apologize that we must postpone the happy hour indefinitely due to concerns surrounding the spread of Covid-19 infection. 

We're proud to announce that we had over 100 attendees registered a week ahead of the event. When the time is right, we will announce a revised event date. 

Thursday | March 12 | 5:00-7:30 PM | Cambridge, MA

Open Bar & Free Appetizers

What is Brews & Biopharma?

A free happy hour for biopharma scientists.

An exclusive, relaxed event for biopharma scientists in the protein sciences. Finish your workday (and start your night) with us over casual drinks, appetizers, and networking.

Who is invited?

Scientists from our partner companies and their invited guests*

*We kindly ask you not to invite your professional recruiter or salesperson friends as your guests. Nobody likes to be pitched after work. Thank you for respecting our policy. 

Abveris is excited to announce our new Green Initiatives blog series.

Why are we “green-ing” our operations?

We are a group of biopharmaceutical scientists advancing a scientific mission to produce better biotherapeutic drugs. While our mission does not directly relate to environmental science, we recognize that environmental health ties directly to human health. Global climate scientists have reached a clear consensus: to address climate change, dramatic action must be taken now. To ignore our company’s contribution to global carbon emissions and climate change is irresponsible.

What’s the plan?

Abveris is enacting sweeping changes to our laboratory and business operations to reduce our company's carbon footprint. Did you know that laboratory facilities use 5-10x more energy compared to similarly-sized “normal” office spaces? As our lab continues to grow, we're scrutinizing our policies on energy use and sustainability so we can build valuable therapeutic products without leaving a harmful footprint.

Why are we blogging about it?

In this blog series, you’ll find information about our efforts to overhaul our company operations and move towards net carbon-neutrality. These initiatives extend beyond our laboratory and office to build support for eco-conscious behaviors at work, at home, and in our supply chain. By showcasing what we are doing in our labs and offices, we hope that other pharmaceutical scientists can follow our progress and enact changes in their own companies and institutions.

In each of our posts, we’ll break down the following:

• What specific action are we taking to address climate change?
• Why are we making a change?
• What's the implementation strategy?
• How do we expect to make an impact?
• How can you, the reader, make a similar change in your own company?

Check out this blog series at abveris.com/greenscience to stay updated on our progress!

Date: January 29, 2019 at 10AM ET (7AM PT)

Please join FortéBio and Abveris for an exclusive webinar featuring Colby Souders, Chief Scientific Officer of Abveris, who will review ways to utilize Octet screening to streamline antibody discovery projects.

Who should attend:

• Antibody discovery scientists and researchers engaged in therapeutic drug discovery.
• Anyone interested in learning more about leveraging high-throughput Octet screening analyses to advance research and development.

Overview:

Integrating Octet into Early Antibody Discovery Workflows

Colby Souders, Chief Scientific Officer, Abveris

As industry-wide advancements in antibody drug discovery continue to push toward larger panels of candidates for early-stage characterization, more efficient identification of lead molecules through enhanced screening resolution is required. Integrating instruments like the Octet into the overall characterization workflow enables reliable, high throughput selection of lead candidates more effectively than alternative traditional techniques. This presentation will highlight a few unique methods of Octet utilization as a replacement or supplemental tool for various antibody discovery protocols. Comparisons across platforms, including traditional ELISA, flow cytometry, SPR, and in vivo studies will be presented.

December 9, 2019 – San Diego, CA - Are you attending the upcoming Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics conference in San Diego on December 9th? It’s not too late to sign up and spend some time in the sun while staying updated on the latest antibody discovery technologies and engineering techniques while networking with lead scientists in the antibody discovery world.

Join us on December 12 at noon for a scientific briefing led by Tracey Mullen, our Chief Operating Officer. Or, stop by our booth or posters in the exhibit hall and meet with Garren (CEO), Ryan (Director of Business Development) and Travis (Business Development Associate). See you there!

Click here to schedule an appointment with our team at the conference.

Information on our Scientific Briefing:

Scientific Briefing: Antibody Discovery for Traditionally Difficult Targets: in vivo, in vitro, or both?

Abstract: Leveraging the natural immune repertoire for antibody discovery has distinct advantages for positive downstream outcomes, including efficacy, developability and safety; however, traditional techniques typically fail to produce a productive response in situations where, for example, the target epitope has poor immunogenicity or is a rare, cryptic site. While some in vitro platforms can overcome these difficulties through careful guiding selection methods, significant downstream engineering is often required to ensure lead candidates harbor appropriate development qualities. Fortunately, recent advancements in protein engineering and antibody discovery have enabled improved drug development to these traditionally difficult targets. Using the AbX platform, the power of the immune system is harnessed to exemplify the breadth and comprehensive nature of the B cell repertoire. When applied to the most difficult target classes, lead candidates can be uncovered where traditional in vivo platforms typically fail, or significant engineering is required for in vitro discovery.

About the Antibody Engineering Conference: Antibody Engineering is the #1 antibody engineering conference for accelerating next-generation antibodies to commercial success. Find the latest science, technology, and partners in antibody engineering, immunobiology, and next-generation binders.

Visit News Medical today to view an interview with Tracey Mullen, Chief Operating Officer of Abveris, in the "Insights from Industry" interview series.

Date: December 4, 2019 at 11AM ET (8AM PT)

Please join Sartorius and Abveris for an exclusive webinar featuring Tracey Mullen, Chief Operating Officer of Abveris, who will review an antibody discovery campaign targeting a glycoprotein for induction of apoptosis. Methods for immunization, screening for lead antibody candidates and subsequent functional characterization through the use of the Intellicyt® iQue platform will be detailed.

Who should attend:

• Antibody discovery scientists and researchers engaged in therapeutic drug discovery for oncology indications.
• Anyone interested in learning more about leveraging high-throughput flow cytometry analysis to advance research and development.

Interested, but have a scheduling conflict? Click here to register and receive an on-demand link to watch later.

About the webinar:

The use of monoclonal antibody-based drugs has proven very successful to target and treat cancer with more than half of late-stage clinical trial antibodies carrying an oncology indication. By employing multiple final formats, unconjugated or conjugated antibodies capitalize on methods of cell killing spanning from direct targeting and inhibition of cell survival pathways to shuttling and delivery of cytotoxic drugs. Specific cell surface antigen recognition is paramount to the success of these drugs, necessitating high resolution early stage characterization of lead antibody drug candidates prior to preclinical development.

Major advancements in high-throughput flow cytometry have enabled more exquisite antibody discovery within the oncology field by providing thorough analysis of on-cell antigen specificity and function earlier in the drug discovery process. In this webinar, an antibody discovery campaign targeting a glycoprotein for induction of apoptosis will be reviewed. Methods for immunization, screening for lead antibody candidates and subsequent functional characterization through the use of the Intellicyt iQue platform will be detailed.

Date: November 13, 2019 at 2PM ET (11AM PT)

• Rapid reagent generation timelines
• Maximal epitope coverage with DiversimAb technology
• Highly sensitive specificity screening
• Identification of high-affinity mAbs
• Neutralizing and non-neutralizing mAbs
• Flexible deliverable strategies
• All work done in the USA

Interested, but have a scheduling conflict? Click here to register, and a video link will be sent after the webinar finishes. 

October 19, 2019 – Are you a team player looking for an exciting new challenge at a growing company? Visit our careers page today to learn about our open positions in our laboratory and business development teams.

Do you think you have the right attitude and the right experience to join our team, but the jobs we've posted don't look quite right for you? We welcome your application. Apply as an "antibody enthusiast" today!

October 8, 2019 - Our team is comprised of creative, friendly, mission-focused antibody enthusiasts who take pride in discovery science. This summer, Abveris will be featuring all of our team members on our blog to showcase the personalities that make our team a community. Tune in to learn more about members of our team and see what they do inside and outside of work.

Colby Souders 
CSO

Q: What excites you about science?

A: We discover something new every day. Our purpose is to find something novel or better than its predecessor, and if we can do that, we improve many future lives. 

Q: What’s your favorite fun fact?

A: I am decidedly not a traveler (anyone who knows me would agree), yet I've been to three continents and lived in four different states. Go figure.  

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: Spending time with friends and family.

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris or what is your favorite memory of working here?

A: Every time someone learns or does something new, there's an overwhelmingly positive response. This is the best part of being at a growing company. 

Basel, CH - October 4, 2019 - Will you be at the Festival of Biologics conference in Switzerland this year? Meet with our Director of Business Development, Ryan Kelly, who will be presenting a posters about our proprietary therapeutic antibody discovery technologies.  See you there from October 15-17.

About Festival of Biologics:

The Festival of Biologics combines four outstanding conferences, the European Antibody Congress, the World Immunotherapy Congress, the World Biosimilar Congress and the Clinical Trials World Congress to make one amazing event.

October 1, 2019 - Our team is comprised of creative, friendly, mission-focused antibody enthusiasts who take pride in discovery science. This summer, Abveris will be featuring all of our team members on our blog to showcase the personalities that make our team a community. Twice a week, tune in to learn more about members of our team and see what they do inside and outside of work.

Haley Wagner

Research Associate 

Q: What excites you about science?

A: I’m excited by how you can use science to help people and cure illnesses, the endless possibilities, the creativity aspect combined with the critical thinking aspect, understanding how things work, and discovering and learning new things constantly.

Q: What is your favorite fun fact?

A: Kindness is contagious.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: I like to cook, bake (and decorate), crafts and DIY, adventure with my chameleon, crossfit, run, hike, and explore state parks, blog, research/read about scientific topics and journal articles to improve my understanding and to be able to think of my own experiments, spend time with my Nana and Papa, guitar, hiking, biking, sell painted shells for charity, throw knives, and sew.

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris or what is your favorite memory of working here?

A: It's really hard to choose just one. My favorite part of Abveris is working with such incredible people. I have a favorite memory with each person specifically, but my favorite memory as a group is the company party because I got to introduce my blood family to my work family. The coolest things I have done is a tie between getting the opportunity to attend and present at PEGS, getting to decorate the lab/office areas, when we troubleshoot and are able to get good sequence results from a difficult clone, and I'm extra excited about being able to contribute to develop ion channel antibodies.

August 29, 2019 - Our team is comprised of creative, friendly, mission-focused antibody enthusiasts who take pride in discovery science. This summer, Abveris will be featuring all of our team members on our blog to showcase the personalities that make our team a community. Tune in to learn more about members of our team and see what they do inside and outside of work.

Garren Hilow
CEO

Q: What excites you about science?

A: The direct application of biology to improve the health of people is very exciting and it's what we do here every day.

Q: Share a fun fact about you?

A: I once made extra money in college by selling balloon animals in the Downtown Crossing T station.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: I like to spend time with my wife and young son, mountain biking, and fishing.

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris or what is your favorite memory of working here?

A: We have made a few antibodies that have gone on to be leads for our partners and have gone on to clinical trials. That direct application of our work to improving the health of our fellow humans is the coolest work I've done in my life.

August 22, 2019 – Boston, MA – Representatives from Abveris will attend the 17th Annual Discovery On Target Conference, September 16-19, 2019, in Boston, MA. Colby Souders, Chief Scientific Officer of Abveris, will serve as chairperson for the Antibody Engineering and Development Forum and present "Screening Tools for Early Prediction of Development and Clinical Success" at 3:40PM on Thursday, September 19. An abstract for the presentation is listed below.

Click here to schedule an appointment with the Abveris team during the conference.

Abstract:

As industry-wide advancements in antibody drug discovery continue to push toward larger panels of candidates for early-stage antibody characterization, more efficient identification of lead molecules through enhanced screening resolution is required. Integrating tools and methods into the overall characterization workflow enables reliable, high throughput selection of lead candidates more effectively than alternative traditional techniques. Comparisons across platforms, including traditional ELISA, flow cytometry, Octet and in vivo studies will be presented that provide enhanced prediction of downstream development and clinical success.

About Discovery On Target:

The 17th Annual Discovery on Target (DOT), the industry’s preeminent event on novel drug targets and technologies, will convene over 1,300 drug discovery professionals in Boston, MA, on September 16-19, 2019. This event highlights advances in current and emerging “hot” targets and technologies, as well as target validation strategies for the discovery and development of novel therapeutic agents, ranging from biologics to small molecules.

Canton, MA, USA – August 12, 2019 – Boston-based antibody discovery services company Abveris has partnered with Biomatters to incorporate the Geneious Biologics data analysis platform into their antibody discovery workflow. In collaboration, a new Single Clone Antibody Annotator pipeline has been developed.

With a rapidly growing customer base and a wide range of antibody discovery services, Abveris plans to leverage the Geneious Biologics platform as a premium hub for bioinformatics and computer programming capabilities.

"The Geneious team has done an excellent job accommodating our specific data resulting in a streamlined, high-throughput workflow that produces accurate data and operates efficiently without the need to integrate multiple bioinformatics platforms," remarked Dr. Colby Souders, Chief Technology Officer at Abveris. "We look forward to continuously improving the platform and its integration into our workflow to combine sequence analytics with metadata and assay data to accelerate candidate selection."

The Geneious team worked closely with Abveris to optimize and enhance the handling of their antibody NGS data. Jannick Bendtsen, VP Technology Services at Geneious, commented, "Abveris is at the cutting edge of antibody drug discovery; they are pushing the boundaries of science and technology. To have Colby and the team select Geneious Biologics is a great honor and a great compliment. We collaborated to integrate our Single Clone Antibody Annotator Pipeline, and it now runs out of the box. It's all about speed and accuracy in the discovery process."

About Abveris: Abveris is a premium Boston-area contract research organization specializing in antibody discovery. Abveris partners with large and small biopharmaceutical companies to discover novel therapeutic products and critical reagent antibodies using diverse platforms, including the proprietary DiversimAb™ hyperimmune mouse technology. Additional information about Abveris is available at https://www.abveris.com.

About Geneious and Biomatters: Biomatters empowers its customers with software that transforms biological data into knowledge and actionable insights across the spectrum of biotechnology research and development, including drug discovery, protein engineering, and advanced comparative analysis of DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. Geneious solutions are created from a deep understanding of customer experience to turn the difficult into the intuitive and easy. Geneious is trusted by over 4,000 companies, universities, and institutes all over the globe. Additional information about Geneious is available at https://www.geneious.com.

August 6, 2019 - Our team is comprised of creative, friendly, mission-focused antibody enthusiasts who take pride in discovery science. This summer, Abveris will be featuring all of our team members on our blog to showcase the personalities that make our team a community. Twice a week, tune in to learn more about members of our team and see what they do inside and outside of work.

Jen Walker 

Associate Director of Antibody Discovery Operations 

Q: What excites you about science?

A: Science helps us interrogate and understand our world, and by its very nature uncovers more questions with each answer. What could be cooler than that?!

Q: What is your favorite fun fact?

A: Honey bees must gather nectar from two million flowers to make one pound of honey.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: In my free time I spend time with my family and friends, work in my gardens, and volunteer as an advocate for individuals and families affected by Alzheimer's Disease.

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris or what is your favorite memory of working here?

A: I am very new to Abveris but it's already been a lot of fun! Here's a shout-out to the arrival of the Beacon, the barbeques, hibachi lunches and the on-going Corn Hole tournament (which has proved itself to be epic).

Canton, MA, July 29, 2019 - Abveris, Inc., a leader in contract research antibody discovery, today announced that it has entered into a collaborative agreement with Lava Therapeutics BV, a biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation T cell engager therapies. Under the terms of the agreement, Abveris will leverage its proprietary technology to develop critical reagent antibodies to support assay development for bispecific antibody γδ T cell engagers selected by Lava Therapeutics.

“The Abveris team is pleased to be working with Lava to accelerate the path to clinical development for their lead compound,” commented Ryan Kelly, Director of Business Development at Abveris. “We apply our proprietary hyperimmune platform to deliver consistent results for diverse biotherapeutic molecule formats. We look forward to working with the Lava Therapeutics team to help advance their γδ T cell engaging bispecific molecules.”

“We are delighted to enter a collaboration with Abveris on the generation of high-quality antibodies as critical reagents in our drug development programs of bispecific γδ T cell engagers. The use of the Abveris hyperimmune platform will enable the accelerated development of advanced (non-)clinical assays for our programs.” said Ton Adang, Senior VP and CDO of Lava Therapeutics B.V.

About Abveris:

Abveris is a premium Boston-area contract research organization specializing in antibody discovery. Abveris partners with large and small biopharmaceutical companies to discover novel therapeutic products and critical reagent antibodies using diverse platforms, including the proprietary DiversimAb™ hyperimmune mouse technology. Additional information about Abveris is available at www.abveris.com.

About Lava Therapeutics:

Lava Therapeutics’ proprietary platform is focused on developing next-generation γδ T cell engaging bispecific antibodies to treat cancer. Lava’s vision is to develop therapeutics for the curative treatment of cancer. For more information, please visit www.lavatherapeutics.com.

Contact for Abveris:

Garren Hilow

contact@abverisantibody.com

+1 781-562-1170

Contact for Lava Therapeutics:

Erik Ensing

e.ensing@lavatherapeutics.com

Justin Gabriel 

Research Associate - Lead TC

July 24, 2019 - Our team is comprised of creative, friendly, mission-focused antibody enthusiasts who take pride in discovery science. This summer, Abveris will be featuring all of our team members on our blog to showcase the personalities that make our team a community. Twice a week, tune in to learn more about members of our team and see what they do inside and outside of work.

Q: What excites you about science?

A: It never ends! I think the most fascinating aspect of science is the fact that we've been studying the world around us for so long and there's still an unfathomably immense amount of ground to cover.

Q: What is your favorite fun fact?

A: Under normal atmospheric pressure/conditions (on Earth), water molecules move from their liquid to gaseous phase at ~720 m/s!!!

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: Everything! Racing drones, ride my motorcycle, work on my car, disc golf, going to the gym. I'd try almost anything once!

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris/what is your favorite memory of working here?

A: I believe the"coolest" aspect of working here at Abveris is getting exposure to all different aspects of antibody production while getting the opportunity to work alongside some amazing people. I truly do love coming to work everyday and am very grateful for every opportunity this company has given me.

July 16, 2019 - Our team is comprised of creative, friendly, mission-focused antibody enthusiasts who take pride in discovery science. This summer, Abveris will be featuring all of our team members on our blog to showcase the personalities that make our team a community. Twice a week, tune in to learn more about members of our team and see what they do inside and outside of work.

Ryan Kelly

Director of Business Development

Q: What excites you about science?

A: Scientific understanding unlocks a whole new sensory experience that extends beyond vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

Q: What is your favorite fun fact?

A: Polar bears don't actually have white fur. Also, they can run at 25 MPH.  Also, they are terrifying!

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: During my free time, I'm often found in the mountains. I'm a fan of hiking (during any season!) and I'm a member of a ski club. Also, I have a huge, loving Boston Irish family, so there's a good chance you'll find me hanging out with them.

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris or what is your favorite memory of working here?

A: During my time at Abveris, I've watched our team grow almost 10x in size. It has been an exciting adventure!  In my job, I get to interact directly with biopharma scientists from all over the globe. These relationships are what get me excited to get out of bed every morning.

July 12, 2019 - Our team is comprised of creative, friendly, mission-focused antibody enthusiasts who take pride in discovery science. This summer, Abveris will be featuring all of our team members on our blog to showcase the personalities that make our team a community. Twice a week, tune in to learn more about members of our team and see what they do inside and outside of work.

Brendan Greamo

Research Associate 

Q: What excites you about science?

A: I love understanding how things work, and watching this understanding be used to gain an even better grasp of how nature works. 

Q: What is your favorite fun fact?

A: Birds are dinosaurs.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: I like to feed my salamander and play basketball.

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris or what is your favorite memory of working here?

A:  The coolest thing I have done is to generate Abveris' largest ever batch of purified antibody... next stop:  1 gram!

July 9, 2019 - Our team is comprised of creative, friendly, mission-focused antibody enthusiasts who take pride in discovery science. This summer, Abveris will be featuring all of our team members on our blog to showcase the personalities that make our team a community. Twice a week, tune in to learn more about members of our team and see what they do inside and outside of work.

Matthew Bartolucci - Business Development Intern

Q: What excites you about science?

A: Science allows for all our our greatest questions to be answered. With the world always changing and evolving, our science is the way that we are able to adapt as a society and prepare for the world ahead.

Q: What is your favorite fun fact?

A: Garren, our CEO, and I have both play/played college ultimate frisbee for Bentley University's Icehouse

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: Hanging out with friends, playing ultimate frisbee, slow-pitch softball and basketball!

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris or what is your favorite memory of working here?

A: I love the start-up culture! One minute, I am helping with our marketing tasks, and the next, I am helping others take out the garbage. Everyone pitches in and embraces the culture! 

Madeleine Carbonneau - Business Development Intern

Q: What excites you about science?

A: There is still so much to discover! Every generation of scientists has the opportunity to make fantastic and revolutionary contributions.

Q: What is your favorite fun fact?

A: The national animal of Scotland is a unicorn.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: I like to run, drink coffee, and travel.

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris or what is your favorite memory of working here?

A: The coolest thing I have done at Abveris is working on the back end of the website. It is really cool to see how different languages, programs, and software work together. Also, the people working at Abveris are all really great and committed to their work which makes working here all the more enjoyable.

Tadhg Daly - Lab Intern

Q: What excites you about science?

A: The pursuit of knowing more than I did yesterday

Q: What is your favorite fun fact?

A: Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: I like to collect retro video games and merchandise as well as play games with my friends.

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris or what is your favorite memory of working here?

A: Assisting in protein purifications and being responsible for my own cell cultures for others to use in fusions

Kelly Rothenberger - Lab Intern

Q: What excites you about science?

A: The possibility for discovering new concepts and that can help people in the future. Especially on the industry side, where creating exciting new things, (such as antibodies) can aid those who are using the new drug products to fight against different diseases. The exponential growth of the biotechnology industry is exciting and I cannot wait to see what I will be apart of in my future!

Q: What is your favorite fun fact?

A: When helium is cooled to almost absolute zero, it becomes a liquid, flowing against gravity and can start running up and over the lip of a glass container.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: I mostly enjoy to workout as often as I can, and I also horseback ride when possible.

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris or what is your favorite memory of working here?

A: Watching my first fusion (done by Justin) on my 6th day of interning! I am so excited to make more memories!!

July 5, 2019 - Our team is comprised of creative, friendly, mission-focused antibody enthusiasts who take pride in discovery science. This summer, Abveris will be featuring all of our team members on our blog to showcase the personalities that make our team a community. Twice a week, tune in to learn more about members of our team and see what they do inside and outside of work.

Tracey Mullen

Chief Operating Officer

Q: What excites you about science?

A: The fact that the answer to most scientific questions is another question.

Q: Tell us a fun fact?

A: The hazelnut is actually not a nut, it's a seed.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: I like rock climbing and yoga (and hiking with a heavy backpack by default...crags tend to be far from civilization...)

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris or what is your favorite memory of working here?

A: PEGS Boston 2019! Seeing so many members of our team present and representing Abveris was truly inspiring.

Click here to read the press release on Business Wire.

Canton, MA, USA, Cambridge, MA, USA, and Rotterdam, the Netherlands, July 1, 2019 - Abveris, Inc., a global leader in contract research antibody discovery, and Harbour Antibodies H2L2 BV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harbour BioMed, today announced a partnership to offer fully-human antibody discovery service that combines Abveris’ antibody discovery services with the Harbour H2L2 human transgenic mouse platform. The combined offering eliminates the need for antibody humanization through the use of the H2L2 Harbour Mice™, and benefits from Abveris’ full suite of therapeutic antibody discovery capabilities.

Abveris was selected as a designated CRO to offer its fully-human antibody discovery service under the Co-Offering Agreement utilizing the H2L2 Harbour Mice™. The Co-Offering Agreement with Harbour includes a low-upfront evaluation fee and pre-negotiated commercial terms that Abveris can in turn provide to partners. The new Co-Offering allows Abveris clients to assess the H2L2 human transgenic mouse technology before committing to a full commercial license.

“We have historically generated potent, fully-human antibodies using the H2L2 Harbour Mice™. This program will allow us to continue to offer H2L2 antibody discovery with the elimination of contractual barriers for our biopharma partners seeking fully-human antibody discovery,” said Garren Hilow, CEO of Abveris. “We look forward to continuing our partnership with Harbour to use the H2L2 Harbour Mice™ in both our hybridoma platform and our AbX Biologics single B-cell discovery platform.”

“We are really excited about this Agreement which allows us to offer our partners access to this leading technology platform in the form of the H2L2 Harbour Mice™. It is an integral part of our strategy to build truly innovative products both in-house and with our partners, and the partnership with Abveris will further allow us to better fulfill unmet medical needs for patients worldwide,” said Jingsong Wang, MD, Ph.D., Chairman & CEO of Harbour BioMed.

Harbour’s patented H2L2 mouse platform provides antibody generation through a natural in vivo process, allowing for the generation of diversified, affinity-matured, human antibody repertoires. Harbour Mice™ licensees include over 40 multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and academic institutions. Abveris will leverage this platform in combination with its own proprietary immunization and high-throughput characterization capabilities to provide a fully-human therapeutic antibody discovery offering to its growing customer base.

About Abveris:

Abveris is a premium Boston-area contract research organization specializing in antibody discovery. Abveris partners with large and small biopharmaceutical companies to discover novel therapeutic products and critical reagent antibodies using diverse platforms, including the proprietary DiversimAb™ hyperimmune mouse technology and a variety of humanized mice. Additional information about Abveris is available at www.abveris.com

Contact:
Ryan Kelly, MBA
Abveris, Inc.
480 Neponset Street, Suite 10B
Canton, MA 02021, USA
contact@abverisantibody.com

About Harbour Antibodies:

Harbour Antibodies H2L2 BV is a fully owned subsidiary of Harbour BioMed, a global biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing innovative therapeutics for oncology and immunological diseases (www.harbourbiomed.com). Harbour Antibodies owns two strains of transgenic mice for generating human therapeutic antibodies: (1) mice that generate antibodies comprised of two heavy chains and two light chains (H2L2) with fully human variable regions; and (2) mice that generate novel “heavy chain only” antibodies (HCAb). The HCAb mice enable the development of antibody fragment-based therapeutics such as nanobodies, bi-specific antibodies and CAR-T with favorable drug-like properties. For additional information, please visit www.harbourantibodies.com

Contact:
Jung Lee, Ph.D.
Harbour Antibodies
One Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
Jung.Lee@harbourbiomed.com

June 25, 2019 - Our team is comprised of creative, friendly, mission-focused antibody enthusiasts who take pride in discovery science. This summer, Abveris will be featuring all of our team members on our blog to showcase the personalities that make our team a community. Twice a week, tune in to learn more about members of our team and see what they do inside and outside of work

Eric Batitay

Senior Vivarium Manager

Q: What excites you about science?

A: The joy of discovery!

Q: What is your favorite fun fact?

A: Elephants think that humans are cute... and my wife thinks so, too!

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: Spending time with my amazing family!

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris or what is your favorite memory of working here?

A: December 2017 is by far my best memory. It is when I started here at Abveris working with some of the greatest minds in the world.

June 21, 2019 - Our team is comprised of creative, friendly, mission-focused antibody enthusiasts who take pride in discovery science. This summer, Abveris will be featuring all of our team members on our blog to showcase the personalities that make our team a community. Tune in to learn more about members of our team and see what they do inside and outside of work.

Kate Teague

Senior Manager, Business Operations

Q: What excites you about science?

A: I think it's cool that we've come so far in our understanding of the world around us, but there's still always more to discover and learn.

Q: What is your favorite fun fact?

A: A brown bear named Wojtek was officially drafted into the Polish army during WWII and rose to the rank of corporal. He aided his unit in the Battle of Monte Cassino by transporting 100-pound crates of artillery shells. He was also known to be an avid beer drinker.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: I enjoy cooking, reading, skiing, and going to the beach.

Q: What is the coolest thing you have done at Abveris or what is your favorite memory of working here?

A: I love planning our company outings and parties! We always have a great time and I feel so fortunate to work with such a great group of people. 

Click here to read the press release on Business Wire.

Canton, MA, June 17, 2019 - Abveris, Inc., a leader in contract research antibody discovery, today announced the deployment of the Berkeley Lights, Inc. Beacon® optofluidic platform for antibody discovery.

Concurrent with this announcement, Abveris will be launching a sister company, AbX Biologics, with an exclusive focus on therapeutic antibody discovery services. AbX Biologics will partner with biopharma companies to provide premium contract research capitalizing on a combination of proprietary in vivo technologies and the Beacon platform. The full AbX Biologics solution is expected to launch in 2020, with beta collaborations beginning Q3 2019. Abveris will continue to provide critical reagent antibody discovery and other antibody-related services.

“We are committed to integrating new and innovative technologies to our expanding suite of antibody discovery capabilities in an effort to continue providing premium services for our partners. We believe that the pioneering technology of the Beacon platform in combination with our own cutting-edge discovery expertise will enable us to deliver development-ready candidates in industry-leading timelines,” said Tracey Mullen, Chief Operating Officer of AbX Biologics and Abveris.

The Beacon platform provides accelerated single-cell screening and high-resolution analysis to identify and isolate antigen-specific antibody-secreting cells in a single day. AbX Biologics will leverage this groundbreaking technology in combination with its proprietary immunization and high-throughput characterization capabilities to provide a streamlined, best-in-class therapeutic antibody discovery offering to its growing customer base.

“We are delighted that Abveris and AbX Biologics have selected the Beacon Platform and our Antibody Discovery workflow for their therapeutic antibody discovery programs,” said Dr. Eric Hobbs, CEO of Berkeley Lights. “Berkeley Lights is driven to help companies accelerate the discovery of the best cells for their unique programs. We believe our work with AbX Biologics will help speed its antibody discovery efforts by screening more potential drug candidates faster, reducing the time from target to high value lead, and ultimately delivering new therapies to market faster.”

About Abveris:

Abveris is a premium Boston-area contract research organization specializing in antibody discovery. Abveris partners with large and small biopharmaceutical companies to discover novel therapeutic products and critical reagent antibodies using diverse platforms, including the proprietary DiversimAbTM hyperimmune mouse technology and a variety of humanized mice. Additional information about Abveris is available at www.abveris.com

About Berkeley Lights:

Berkeley Lights, Inc. (BLI) is a digital cell biology company that develops and commercializes workflows and processes for the biotechnology sector to accelerate the design, discovery, development, and delivery of cell-based products. By operating at the intersection of biology, technology and information, our workflows automate the manipulation, analysis and selection of individual cells, creating ultimate scalability and deep cell insights. BLI enables the rapid deployment of biology for the production of sustainable and scalable sources of food, therapies, and energy.

The Beacon platform is for Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.

Contact for Abveris:

Garren Hilow

contact@abverisantibody.com

781-562-1170

June 13, 2019 - Our team is comprised of creative, friendly, mission-focused antibody enthusiasts who take pride in discovery science. This summer, Abveris will be featuring all of our team members on our blog to showcase the personalities that make our team a community. Tune in to learn more about members of our team and see what they do inside and outside of work.

Chloe Emery

Senior Vivarium Manager

Q: What’s your favorite fun fact?

A: Did you know a rat can tread water for up to 3 days, and hold its breath underwater for 3 minutes?! That's how they can climb up your toilet.

Q: What excites you about science?

A: There are no mistakes in science, just temporary setbacks. Every misstep teaches you something that will help you succeed in the future.

Q: What do you do in your free time?

A: During the summer, I'm at the beach every waking moment that I'm not here at Abveris. In the colder months I'm at home knitting or painting. I'm also back in school for my Veterinary Nursing degree through Purdue's College of Veterinary Medicine, so that takes up a good chunk of time.

Q: What is your favorite memory of working at Abveris?

A: This is a really tough question! I feel like I do a lot of laughing here. Everyone is jokester, and they all enjoy taking a few moments out of their day to mess with each other. So I think all of my favorite memories are of pranks or someone jumping out to try and scare you. Or Brian singing about his chicken sandwich all day...

Boston, MA - June 11, 2019 - Ryan Kelly, the Associate Director of Business Development at Abveris, will give a talk about our advanced immunization strategies and antibody discovery platform technologies at the Future of Drug Discovery and Development Symposium hosted by ACROBiosystems and Biocytogen.

The symposium will be held on Thursday June 13, 2019 from 1-6PM in Cambridge.

Register for free to attend the symposium on Eventbrite.

Join the symposium to learn more about cutting-edge therapeutic antibody discovery technologies and the latest research in biologics drug development. The conference is free to attend, light refreshments and dinner will be provided.

Confirmed Speakers:

Chun-Nan Chen

CEO and CSO, Single Cell Technology

Qingcong Lin

CEO, Biocytogen Boston Corp

Stephen Gillies

CSO, LinkedUp Bioscience Inc

Johanna Lahdenranta

Director of In Vivo Pharmacology, Bicycle Therapeutics

Ryan Kelly

Associate Director, BD at Abveris, Co-Founder at AbX Biologics

Xiaodong Li

Associate of Patent and Intellectual Property, Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

Click here to learn more about the symposium.

Event Details & Address:

Thursday June 13, 2019 from 1-6PM

Residence Inn Boston Cambridge

120 Broadway, Six Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA

Click here to read the press release on Business Wire.

Canton, MA, June 4, 2019 - Abveris, Inc., a leader in contract research antibody discovery, today announced that it has entered into a multi-target agreement with TetraGenetics, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibody therapeutics for ion-channel mediated disorders. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will leverage their proprietary technologies to discover antibodies against traditionally difficult ion channel targets chosen by TetraGenetics.

"We are pleased to be working with TetraGenetics to develop antibodies against some of the most elusive therapeutic targets," commented Garren Hilow, CEO of Abveris. "The combined benefits of our proprietary hyperimmune platform along with TetraGenetics' unique ion channel technology provide a significant competitive advantage for discovery of antibodies against this traditionally difficult target class.

For the collaboration, the TetraGenetics’ TetraExpress platform will be leveraged in combination with the proprietary antibody discovery capabilities of Abveris for the discovery of diverse panels of antibodies with therapeutic potential.

“As our newest antibody partner, Abveris brings unique technology and a reputation for excellent execution to our growing list of drug discovery programs,” said Doug Kahn, CEO of TetraGenetics.

About Abveris:

Abveris is a Boston-area specialty antibody discovery contract research organization located in Canton, Massachusetts, USA. Abveris partners with large and small biopharmaceutical companies to discover novel therapeutic products and critical reagent antibodies using diverse platforms, including the proprietary DiversimAb™ hyperimmune mouse technology. Additional information about Abveris is available at www.abveris.com.

About TetraGenetics:

TetraGenetics is focused on the discovery and development of first-in-class biologic medicines for autoimmune diseases, oncology and pain. The company has the leading drug discovery platform (TetraExpress™) for identifying antibodies targeting ion channels and other transmembrane proteins. TetraGenetics is actively building a proprietary drug pipeline and working collaboratively with major biotech companies for antibody drug discovery. For more information, please visit: www.tetragenetics.com.

Contact for Abveris:

Garren Hilow

contact@abverisantibody.com

781-562-1170

Contact for TetraGenetics:

Suzanne Gibbons-Neff

suzanne@sgnpr.com

203-858-1325

Boston, MA - March 24, 2019 - Will you be at PEGS Boston this year? Come visit us in the exhibit hall at Booth #518. In addition to our exhibit, scientists from Abveris will be presenting two posters about our proprietary mouse technology and our anti-idiotype antibody discovery process.  See you there from April 8th - 12th.

About PEGS Boston:

PEGS: The Essential Protein Engineering Summit is the industry’s preeminent event that inspires innovative biotherapeutic protein drug development.

The PEGS Summit has celebrated record growth for ten consecutive years with over 2,600 industry professionals in attendance and is on track to set another new record this spring.

PEGS Boston 2019 will host more than 400 lectures, panels, tutorials and round-table discussions, along with 150+ exhibitors, and 300 research posters on display in the exhibit hall. The speaker lineup includes world-renowned experts, visionaries, and influencers from top pharma, biotech, academic, and government institutions.

Canton, MA – February 20, 2019 – Abveris, Inc. today announced the addition of new capabilities to support antibody discovery campaigns. In-house antigen generation platforms have been established to support the production of plasmid DNA, recombinant proteins, and transfected cell lines for use in antibody discovery endeavors.

When reliable recombinant proteins are not available commercially, in house expi293- and expiCHO-based expression platforms are available for recombinant antigen production. We’ll build in confirmation testing checkpoints to ensure both parties are confident in the reagent before it is used for antibody discovery.

We generate transiently transfected cell lines in a bulk-transient cell line production procedure using our proprietary in-house vectors. With this method, we can rapidly deploy antibody discovery projects.

DNA immunization can be a strong approach for diverse target formats. We apply a suite of internal proprietary vectors to promote robust expression of your target directly in immunized mice.

Contact our team to learn more about antigen production services today.

Canton, MA – January 24, 2019 – Abveris, Inc. today announced that Director of Antibody Discovery Operations Tracey Mullen has been appointed Chief Operating Officer, a new position within Abveris. Mullen previously oversaw laboratory operations and will continue to report to Garren Hilow, CEO of Abveris.

“Tracey is an outstanding member of the Abveris team who consistently delivers results. Her promotion to Chief Operating Officer is in recognition of the consistency and accountability she has demonstrated as Director of Operations,” said Garren Hilow, CEO. “I have tremendous confidence in Tracey’s ability to drive the future of innovation at Abveris with her laser-focus on operational excellence.”

An MIT graduate, Mullen joined Abveris in 2018 after five years of scientific employ at Biogen. During her time at Biogen, Mullen was engaged in biotherapeutics discovery work using diverse platform technologies.

In her free time, Mullen is an avid rock climber who can be found traveling to the most distant regions of the country with her husband and Siberian husky in search of exciting climbing routes.