Antibody discovery “one-stop shop” coming to Plus Ultra Utrecht: QVQ to move to new R&D facility on Utrecht Science Park
Kadans Science Partner is happy to welcome a new member to Plus Ultra Utrecht: QVQ. They are the second tenant to sign a lease for the newest life sciences building currently under development on Utrecht Science Park. QVQ is your one-stop shop for affordable high quality single domain antibodies. Their custom projects are tailored to each customer based on a broad range of services, including llama immunization (in collaboration), construction of phage display libraries, custom-tailored selection procedures, production of VHH, plain or equipped with different tags in bacteria and yeast. The QVQ team strives to use its extensive experience to make single domain antibody technology available to the largest possible user base. Close collaborations with top academic research groups and industrial partners ensure … Read more
Stephanie Anbuhl wins poster prize on the annual MCCB KNCV meeting in Lunteren
On Thursday the 30th of March 2023, our talented early-stage researcher (ESR) within the ITN project ONCORNET2.0, Stephanie Mareike Anbuhl , presented her poster on the reformatting of improved CXCR4-targeting single domain antibodies for biophysical detection methods on the annual meeting of the Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology (MCCB) division of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV) in Lunteren. On her poster, Stephanie illustrated how various immunization and phage display approaches can aid the development of novel CXCR4 binding single domain antibodies against previously untargeted epitopes or conformations and with unprecedented affinity and potency. Also, Stephanie showed examples how such molecules can be developed into higher order multivalent formats for improving potencies even further as well as conjugating them to make … Read more
NanoB2 for assessing binding of ligands to drug targets
In a collaborative project, researchers at QVQ (Stephanie Mareike Anbuhl and Raimond Heukers), VU Amsterdam (Martine Smit lab) and University of Nottingham (Laura Kilpatrick and Steve Hill) have developed a novel approach using labeled VHH to easily assess and quantify binding of ligands to different drug targets. This technology, named NanoB2 (nanobody-NanoBRET), was published in the journal of Cell Reports Methods. The work, driven by Jelle van den Bor and Nick Bergkamp proves again the high potential of labeled VHH as detection agents. In this new technology, labeled VHH are used for the determination of the binding sites, kinetics and affinities of unlabeled drugs and thereby aid the identification of novel ligands. Link
