A consortium of five European partners, among which Tagworks Pharmaceuticals, has secured a €6 million grant from the EU Horizon2020 program for their research action entitled In Vivo Click PET Imaging Agents: Improving clinical companion diagnostics - Click-It. Coordinator of the Click-It consortium is the University of Copenhagen and next to …

Tagworks Pharmaceuticals has received two valorization grants, €180,000 total, from NanoNextNL, the Dutch research and innovation program on nanotechnology. The grants will be used to take two of the company's core programs to the next level. One grant concerns Tagworks' antibody drug conjugate (ADC) technology and will be applied to further …

For their proposal "Click chemistry-triggered activation of Antibody-Drug Conjugates", Tagworks Pharmaceuticals and the research group of professor Paul Yazaki at the Department of Immunology, City of Hope Beckman Research Institute in Duarte, CA, were awarded a US$465,000 Breakthrough Award through the Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) of the US Department …

The latest edition of Medicines, a Dutch journal on drug development, features Tagworks Pharmaceuticals in the start-up sections. The article by Rik Nijland appeared in Medicines 1, February 2015 (in Dutch) 24_25_med1_startup

Together with prof. Tom Quinn of the University of Missouri-Columbia, Tagworks succeeded in securing an Exploratory/Development grant from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) program for the project "In vivo metal-free cycloaddition chemistry driven pretargeted cancer radiotherapy". The proposal was ranked in the top …

By modifying the fastest and highly selective click reaction, the inverse-electron-demand-Diels-Alder reaction, Tagworks has achieved selective bioorthogonal release. This holds promise for the chemically triggered release, and thus activation, of drugs from tumor-bound Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs), which would greatly enhance the scope of suitable ADC targets. Published in: Angewandte Chemie …

Top-5 pharma company and Tagworks start collaboration on companion diagnostics.