Twist Bioscience Corporation, a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, announced it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Abveris, a privately held in vivo antibody discovery services company developing the next generation of biologics, cell therapies, vaccines, and diagnostics in partnership with global biopharma leaders.
Abveris offers comprehensive antibody discovery and characterization services using its proprietary DiversimAb™ family of hyperimmune mouse models, the output of which can be humanized using the Twist antibody optimization solution to develop superior biologics for rapid clinical advancement.
“The addition of the Abveris discovery platform is a natural fit with Twist as it will complement and extend our biopharma antibody capabilities into mouse-based discovery and screening,” said Emily M. Leproust, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Twist Bioscience. “There are three key approaches to antibody discovery: synthetic libraries, which is the specialty of Twist; in vivo discovery through animal models; and artificial intelligence models. With the anticipated acquisition of Abveris, Twist will have expertise in each, creating a robust antibody design, discovery and screening organization to serve both our partners and our internal pipeline.”
“We look forward to integrating our proprietary in vivo discovery platform with the Twist lead optimization workflow to consolidate and streamline the process of identifying the highest quality development ready drug candidates for our partners,” said Tracey Mullen, CEO of Abveris. “By combining the two highly synergistic approaches, Twist will be able to pair natural, in vivo antibody development with its industry-leading humanization and engineering capabilities to introduce a new gold standard in antibody discovery. We are thrilled to play an integral role in this revolution.
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.