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Antibody Drug Conjugates—A New Bioanalytical Challenge


Antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) link precisely targeted antibodies to cytotoxic small molecule drugs 
with the goal of improving both the safety and efficacy of chemotherapeutics. Pivotal clinical trials of 
trastuzumab‐DM1 for women with treatment-resistant HER2‐positive breast cancer and of SGN‐35 for 
relapsed/refractory Hodgkin’s lymphoma represent the vanguard of several dozen ADCs currently in 
various stages of clinical development. According to Fred Regnier,  Purdue University's John H. Law 
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Principal Investigator for the Purdue/IU Analytical Proteomics 
Team, and founder of Perfinity Biosciences, “The emergence of new isolation methods paired with 
stable isotope coding and mass spectrometry measurement of proteins, modified proteins, and their 
tryptic digests provides an unprecedented level of specificity and quantification in examining their 
structure, relative activity, and degradation in biological systems.”

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