Abstract
Bioanalytical assessments of anti-drug antibodies (ADAs) provide an understanding of the immunogenicity of biological drug molecules. The potential to induce ADAs after treatment with biologics is a safety issue that has become an important consideration in the development of biologics and a critical aspect of regulatory filings. US and European regulatory agencies are recommending that sponsors study immunogenicity using a risk-based approach, encouraging sponsors to formulate and implement their own risk management plans and to conduct discussions with the agencies when necessary. It follows from this that the greater the safety risks of ADAs, the more diligently one should clarify the immunogenicity of the product. Here we propose a general strategy to broadly assign immunogenicity risk levels to biological drug products, and present risk level–based 'fit-for-purpose' bioanalytical schemes for the investigations of treatment-related ADAs in clinical and nonclinical studies.
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The authors express their gratitude to the following individuals for their review and feedback on this manuscript: Kristan Phillips and Syd Johnson (MacroGenics, Inc.); Eugen Koren (Scios, Inc.); Hugh Davis, George Treacy, Robert Jordan and Joseph Marini (Centocor Research & Development, Inc.); Vishwanath Devanarayan (Merck, Inc.) and John Ghrayeb.
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Shankar, G., Pendley, C. & Stein, K. A risk-based bioanalytical strategy for the assessment of antibody immune responses against biological drugs. Nat Biotechnol 25, 555–561 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1303
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