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Pharmaceuticals

BioVectra scores production contract

January 15, 2007 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 85, Issue 3

BioVectra, a Canadian custom pharmaceutical manufacturer, has won the contract to supply Helix BioPharma with bulk quantities of L-DOS47, consisting of a single-domain antibody linked to the enzyme urease. BioVectra will make clinical-trial quantities of the drug, for which Helix is currently completing preclinical tests as a lung cancer treatment. According to Helix, BioVectra was selected because it has biopharmaceutical production capabilities and is a major supplier of urease.

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