Agenus Acquires Celexion Assets and Expands Its Antibody Discovery Platform

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Agenus (AGEN) Acquires Key Antibody Assets of Celexion

April 8, 2015 7:25 AM EDT

Agenus (NASDAQ: AGEN) announced the acquisition of key antibody assets of Celexion, LLC, a privately held Cambridge, Mass. biotech company.

Included in the asset acquisition is the SECANT® yeast display platform for the generation of novel monoclonal antibodies. SECANT is designed to enable highly efficient interrogation of drug targets such as checkpoint proteins. With this acquisition, Agenus will now have the benefit of using its Retrocyte DisplayTM platform for further optimization of antibodies... More