Therapeutics development

We provide you with highly specific antibodies, supporting you with the development of novel therapeutics.

Recombinant antibodies for drug development

Recombinant antibodies for drug development

Our custom antibody expression service delivers to customers highly specific constructs
exclusively designed to meet your unique needs, empowering you to pioneer novel
solutions and drive forward scientific breakthroughs.

More than a manufacturing partner – with more than 15 years of experience, our
experts can also offer valuable guidance for your project, providing a deeper insight into
the construct design that will optimize performance.

“Quality and reproducibility considerations are often delayed until later in vitro and early in vivo experiments. However, this may lead to irreproducible results, and miss out on identifying the best lead
candidates.”

We make your challenges our mission

Lead identification

Our expert team helps you find the antibody that fits your needs.

Time

We provide you with antibodies within 4 weeks from sequence to shipping.

Budget

Cost transparency at all times is a matter of course.

Scalability

Our CHO expression system allows scalability and reproducibility from 30ml up to 20L.

What our customers say

Long-lasting, healthy customer relationships are very important to us. Anonymity is therefore part of our corporate DNA.

“We have been working with evitria for several years and highly appreciate the high consistency of the delivered material.”

Sr. Scientist, Biotherapeutics, Switzerland

“We have been working with evitria since 2022. We appreciate the openness and flexibility of the team, the high speed and quality of the proteins they deliver.”

Radiopharm Theranostics Ltd - client of evitria

Radiopharm Theranostics Ltd.

“We are happy paying for the assured quality that evitria brings.”

Sr Scientist, Biotherapeutics, Series B Startup, Boston

Tailored Solutions for Therapeutic Development

Whether you’re an early-stage startup, a small to mid-size pharmaceutical company, a therapeutics-focused biotech or a large pharmaceutical company, we understand your specific challenges and timelines.

Large Pharmaceutical Companies with several projects in your pipeline

Complex governance structures and strict compliance requirements create high barriers for new suppliers. Batch-to-batch variability and supplier risk threaten program timelines, requiring extensive re-validation efforts. Documentation gaps can cause delays or escalations that impact critical regulatory milestones.

  • Focus: Risk reduction, quality, and consistency in later-stage development
  • Priority: Ensuring reliable, reproducible antibody supply with minimal risk and strict compliance

We provide reliable and reproducible antibody production with demonstrated batch-to-batch consistency, comprehensive documentation, and quality systems that meet the rigorous standards of large pharmaceutical companies. Our CHO-based platform eliminates translation risk for later-stage programs, and our 15 years of exclusive focus on recombinant antibody expression provides the established expertise and track record that large pharma requires

Large Pharmaceutical Companies with several projects in your pipeline for therapeutic antibody development
An employee of a small to Mid-Size Pharmaceutical Companies doing research for therapeutic antibody development

Small to Mid-Size Pharmaceutical Companies

Limited internal antibody development capacity and fixed budgets create bottlenecks that slow program advancement. You need reliable external partners to maintain momentum.

  • Focus: Extending internal R&D capacity
  • Priority: Balance of speed and cost-efficiency

We extend your internal R&D capacity with reliable execution and transparent, value-based engagement. Our predictable timelines and pricing enable you to plan confidently and advance programs efficiently.

Early-Stage Biotech

Delays in generating proof-of-concept data threaten fundraising rounds and company survival. With limited resources and aggressive timelines, every experiment must count.

  • Focus: Speed to data for fundraising milestones
  • Priority: Maximum flexibility under resource constraints

We provide rapid antibody production with maximum flexibility, enabling you to generate preclinical data quickly and pivot as needed – all while working within tight time and resource constraints.

Researcher at Early-Stage Biotech company doing therapeutics antibody development
For a therapeutics antibody development focused Biotech company

Therapeutics-Focused Biotech

High scientific uncertainty combined with upcoming funding or partnering events creates intense pressure to generate reliable data quickly. Data inconsistency can derail critical decisions.

  • Focus: Rapid generation of decision-relevant data
  • Priority: Speed to data for funding/partnering

We deliver rapid, high-quality expression of customized antibodies to generate decision-relevant data. Our CHO-based platform minimizes uncertainty and accelerates program progress toward important funding or partnership milestones.

Our capabilities in developing therapeutic antibodies at your disposal

Since 2010, we have preformed more than 120,000 antibody production runs, expressed more than 23,000 proteins, and purified more than 20,000 antibodies. Access our expertise in the following areas:

Our capabilities in developing therapeutic antibodies at your disposal

Publications with evitria

Our recombinant antibodies have been referenced as material for scientific papers over 40 times, from 2022 to 2023 only.

Find more examples of therapeutic antibody applications using glyco-engineering or bispecifc antibody production methods in our section dedicated to the publications with evitria.

  • Efficacy of Antibodies Targeting TfR1 in Xenograft Mouse Models of AIDS-Related Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.

  • In vivo turnover and biodistribution of soluble AXL: implications for biomarker development

  • The CD33xCD123xCD70 Multispecific CD3-Engaging DARPin MP0533 Induces Selective T Cell–Mediated Killing of AML Leukemic Stem Cells

FAQs about Therapeutic Development in CHO-based Antibody Expression

Have questions about our antibody expression services? Find answers to the most common questions from therapeutic development team.

The standard four week delivery serves as a deliberate hallmark of scientific thoroughness that distinguishes our laboratory from high speed generalists. This timeframe allows our Zurich based experts to perform meticulous quality checks and individual cloning optimizations that automated standard procedures often overlook. Saving ten days in the discovery phase represents a net loss if a lack of thoroughness leads to developability issues or failure during critical scale up milestones.

Chinese Hamster Ovary cells represent the industry standard for manufacturing therapeutic antibodies and utilizing them from day one ensures that early discovery data remains directly relevant to clinical scale production. By eliminating the host cell variable, we prevent the “Translation Trap” where candidates optimized in HEK293 cells aggregate or fail when transitioned to CHO for manufacturing. This approach de risks the entire journey from the bench to the clinic by ensuring that the molecule screened is the molecule scaled.

Standardized robotics assisted CHO processes provide the clean training data required for predictive success in machine learning and antibody engineering. For organizations leveraging AI, the quality of the training set remains the most critical factor, so we ensure the sequence is the only variable in the expression process. By providing the cleanest possible experimental material, we ensure that digital models are trained on reliable data that is truly predictive of manufacturing success.

Our laboratory acts as a bespoke forge for challenging constructs including bispecifics and trispecifics or fusion proteins that often fail in rigid and menu driven workflows. We have produced over 25,000 antibody based molecules and consistently achieve greater than 95 percent correct pairing for complex formats such as Knobs into Holes or CrossMab. This specialization allows our partners to manage difficult structural liabilities with absolute scientific flexibility.

Absolute scientific flexibility remains the cornerstone of our partnership model because we understand that therapeutic development rarely follows a linear path. Unlike rigid providers who enforce fixed menus or predefined packages, we individually discuss and design every expression strategy to match specific preclinical objectives. This approach allows us to pivot alongside your research needs and accommodate custom optimization requests that standard high throughput platforms cannot support.

Strategic engineering options including GlymaxX for afucosylation and mAbsolve STR for Fc silencing are fully integrated into our CHO platform to optimize antibody function early in development. By incorporating these advanced technologies during the discovery phase, researchers can generate material that is already optimized for enhanced potency or reduced side effect profiles. This proactive integration provides a significant head start on developability and ensures that lead candidates are functionally superior before they reach the manufacturing stage.

Absolute flexibility across all stages of development allows us to provide scales ranging from 0.1 mg for initial screenings to 10 g for advanced in vivo studies and IND enabling work. Every project maintains a guaranteed purity of greater than 95 percent and endotoxin levels below 1 EU per mg as a standard to support the most sensitive biological assays. This consistency ensures that the data foundation remains stable as lead candidates advance through the pipeline.

Recombinant antibody production at evitria is 100 percent cell based and animal free to align with modern ethical standards and global regulatory trends. This commitment ensures a higher level of process control and consistency while meeting the zero tolerance requirements of government organizations and global pharmaceutical corporations. By removing animal derived components from the production chain, we provide a robust and traceable platform for all research applications.

Highly optimized and standardized protocols ensure that every production run remains reproducible across multiple years of a development program. We maintain detailed process documentation and utilize comprehensive analytics such as LC MS analysis to demonstrate consistency across multiple productions. This level of precision provides the decision grade data required for publications and grant applications as well as therapeutic advancement.

Services are strictly limited to the research and preclinical stages of drug discovery and our products are not for human use. The mission of evitria is to ensure that the transition of a molecule from the bench to preclinical validation is successful so that it possesses a viable path toward clinical development handled by the client. We focus exclusively on providing the high quality material required to move a candidate forward with absolute confidence.

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