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Nature Reviews Immunology 6, 343–357 (1 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/nri1837

Potent antibody therapeutics by design

Paul J. Carter

Antibodies constitute the most rapidly growing class of human therapeutics and the second largest class of drugs after vaccines. The generation of potent antibody therapeutics, which I review here, is an iterative design process that involves the generation and optimization of antibodies to improve their clinical potential.