Cloning several new anti-interferon antibodies to develop future therapeutic candidates

New research from The Wistar Institute’s Montaner lab—led by Wistar Executive Vice President, director of the HIV Cure and Viral Disease Center, and Herbert Kean, M.D., Family Professor, Luis Montaner, D.V.M., D.Phil.—has successfully isolated and cloned fully human antibodies that can block specific Type-I interferon molecules in vitro; their discovery…