AbCellera Biologics Inc. (ABCL) is a Canadian biotechnology company that develops antibody discovery platforms. Its full-stack, AI-powered drug discovery platform searches and analyses the database of natural immune systems to find antibodies that can be used by its partners to develop into drugs.
ABCL was established in 2012 as a spin-off from the University of British Columbia (UBC), where Dr Carl Hansen, the company’s founding CEO, was a faculty member from 2005 to 2019.
The Vancouver-based company has collaborations with drug developers ranging from large cap pharmaceuticals to small biotechnology firms. As of the earnings date of 31 December 2021, the company had 156 discovery programmes either completed, in progress or under contract with 36 partners.
As a recent example, AbCellera Biologics teamed with pharma giant Eli Lilly (LLY) to co-develop two antibody therapeutics to treat and prevent Covid-19 utilising ABCL’s technological stack.
Some of the pharmaceutical companies that partnered with ABCL in the past two years include Everest Medicines for oncology or cancer; Kodiak Sciences (KOD) for partnership in eye care, Novarties (NVS), and Gilead Sciences (GILD) for infectious disease.
AbCellera Biologics was listed as a public company and began trading on the NASDAQ stock exchnage under the ticker symbol ‘ABCL’ in December 2020 through an initial public offering (IPO). ABCL’s stock price was set at $20.
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