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Navigating the unique CMC challenges of oral anaerobic live biotherapeutics

European Pharmaceutical Review

The development of drug products containing live anaerobic bacterial strains as the active pharmaceutical ingredient and where potency and shelf-life is typically associated with viable cell quantification, poses unique challenges when compared to both small and large molecule development therapeutics.

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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Targeting toxic species of Abeta, such as multimers (with aducanumab and lecanemab) or pyroglutamate Abeta3-42 (with donanemab), induced significant removal of Abeta plaque load in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, leading to the delay in cognitive decline.