Antibody Therapeutics “Papers of the Year” Award

Antibody Therapeutics is delighted to announce the inaugural Antibody Therapeutics Papers of the Year Award, recognizing exceptional articles published in the previous year. Following polls conducted among thousands of global professionals through professional networks, we are thrilled to honor four outstanding papers published in 2025 as recipients of the Papers of the Year 2025 Award. The awards will be officially presented at the Antibody Therapeutics Symposium, an inaugural conference organized and hosted by Antibody Therapeutics, in the afternoon of May 9, 2026, in Cambridge, MA, U.S.

Research Articles

• Generation of antagonistic biparatopic anti-CD30 antibody from an agonistic antibody by precise epitope determination and utilization of structural characteristics of CD30 molecule

Antibody Therapeutics, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 56–67, https://doi.org/10.1093/abt/tbaf002

Hiroki Akiba, Tomoko Ise, Reiko Satoh, Yasuhiro Abe, Kouhei Tsumoto, Hiroaki Ohno, Haruhiko Kamada, Satoshi Nagata

Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, and Laboratory of Antibody Design, Center for Drug Design Research, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

• Engineering a novel light-chain single-domain antibody to enable IgG-format bispecific antibody design

  Antibody Therapeutics, Volume 8, Issue 4, October 2025, Pages 301–316, https://doi.org/10.1093/abt/tbaf020

  Mingkai Wang, Qingyuan Xu, Yu Kong, Yuxuan Zhong, Feng Yin, Litong Liu, Zhenlin Yang, Tianlei Ying, Yanling Wu

  School of Basic Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Review Articles

• A review of conjugation technologies for antibody drug conjugates

Antibody Therapeutics, Volume 8, Issue 2, April 2025, Pages 157–170, https://doi.org/10.1093/abt/tbaf010

Qirui Fan, Hu Chen, Guoguang Wei, Ding Wei, Zekun Wang, Lin Zhang, Jun Wang, Marie Zhu

Department of Discovery & Development, WuXi XDC Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China

• Overview of antibody-drug conjugates nonclinical and clinical toxicities and related contributing factors

  Antibody Therapeutics, Volume 8, Issue 2, April 2025, Pages 124–144, https://doi.org/10.1093/abt/tbaf004

  Yumei Cheng, Jing Lu, Chonghao Zhang, Weiyuan Yan, Panpan Zhu, Qiuping Qin, Likun Gong

  Center for Drug Safety Evaluation and Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China