Revolutionize binding for the future of cell & antibody therapeutics
There are no simple answers to immuno-oncology’s greatest challenges
Many immunotherapies adapt to solve the field’s most pressing issues (an intricate balance between persistence, potency, and safety) by integrating multiple signaling mechanisms and engaging with more than one target in parallel. With that trend, the binding mechanisms between binder and target also complexify.
Yet, most binding assays haven’t kept up.
- Molecular assays like tetramer binding and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) offer simplified snapshots. Focusing on isolated ligand-receptor interactions or abundance on a molecular level, they can miss the cellular context and often do not correlate well with functional outcomes.
- Functional assays such as cytotoxicity and activation assays generally measure the outcome of binding yet may fail to provide direct mechanistic insights inhibiting rationally driven design choices. This creates a gap between what we can measure and what we need to understand to advance next-generation immunotherapies.
Many immunotherapies adapt to solve the field’s most pressing issues (an intricate balance between persistence, potency, and safety) by integrating multiple signaling mechanisms and engaging with more than one target in parallel. With that trend, the binding mechanisms between binder and target also complexify.
Cell Avidity, the missing link
Cell Avidity bridges that gap. By measuring the combined strength of cell-cell / cell-protein binding with controlled forces, Cell Avidity generates direct, physiologically relevant measurements of binding in its full, dynamic complexity. Applied to cell or antibody binding research, in experiments on functional modifications or microenvironment modulators, Cell Avidity is shown to reveal the mechanisms of action, facilitating rational design choices, selecting the right candidates fast and early, and ultimately improving therapeutic outcomes.
To support progress in immunotherapy, we need to measure binding the way it happens—in real life, in real cells.
This is Cell Avidity.
Go beyond affinity. Select leads based on their binding in a cellular context.
Understand the MoA of your therapeutic products by revealing its complex binding dynamics
Balance potency & safety by optimizing binding
Unlock faster R&D cycles through more rational drug design
Workflow
The Cell Avidity workflow
Cell Avidity: Assays that measure the overall strength of interaction between cells, or between proteins and cells.
Target cell seeding
Target cells (adherent or non-adherent) are generally of two types:
- Tumor cells to assess potency or antigen sensitivity
- Healthy cells to assess on-target off-tumor toxicity
Effector cell / molecule introduction
Introduction of labeled binders to the uniform monolayer. These can include:
- Therapeutic effector cell products like CAR T, TCR T, NK.
- Effector cells with compound drugs such as cell engagers, small molecule inhibitors or modified environmental factors.
- Fluorescent beads coated with antibodies or other proteins.
Controlled force application & fluorescent imaging
Controlled force applied to the bound cells probes the strength of interactions between labeled and target populations.
Fluorescence microscopy captures the number of bound cells before and after force application. The percentage of bound cells after force application indicates the population’s Cell Avidity.
Instant data acquisition
Cell Avidity quantifies cell binding with hundreds of cells per measurement.
- Percentage (%) of cells bound
- Percentage (%) of antibody-coated beads bound.
Applications
Explore your research application
Explore what Cell Avidity can mean for your field of interest
Cell Engagers
Accelerate your cell engager discovery
Determine avidity EC50 and binding kinetics of T cell engagers to quantify trimer formation across multiple dimensions in the cell-cell context.
Available case studies:
Enhancing efficacy against clear cell renal cell carcinoma through format-tuning of bispecific T cell engagers
Case study
Antibody Therapy
Quickly rank large pools of antibody candidates
Elucidate binding effects of antibodies within the 2D membrane-constrained cellular environment, taking into account the effects of epitope, steric hindrance, and multivalency.
Available case studies:
Cell Avidity measures true binding of biparatopic antibodies
Case study
Cell Therapy
How Cell Avidity improves cell therapy development
Steer receptor binding to overcome cell therapy exhaustion, improve potency, minimize OTOT, and refine binding sensitivity to overcome immune escape.
Available case studies:
Cell Avidity enables potent and safe CAR-T therapies for solid tumors
Case study
How Cell Avidity could have predicted a clinical trial failure
Case study
Harvard Medical School uses Cell Avidity to overcome CAR resistance mechanism
Case study
Industry
Unlock faster R&D cycles
Integrating Cell Avidity in the drug development workflow leads to faster identification of the most potent, safe and sensitive drug candidate by reducing the required number of design iterations or eliminating candidates from in vivo preclinical studies which ultimately bind ineffectively in a cellular context.
Early in the pipeline - Select the right candidates fast
Quickly rank hundreds to thousands of therapeutic candidates to get insights into sensitivity and safety. Incorporate Cell Avidity early in the discovery workflow helps ensure that only candidates with the most promising binding characteristics progress.
Late-stage - Deep candidate characterization to drive clinical selection
Carry out deep functional characterization of select final candidates. Reveal differences in binding dynamics and target engagement to confidently select the optimal therapeutics for clinical development.
Solutions
Avidion
The next generation Cell Avidity platform
Ideal for cell therapy candidate screening and large characterization studies. Run up to 4 disposable 48-well cartridges a day for a total of 192 measurements with <80 min. hands-on time.
Avidigo
White glove Cell Avidity services
Full-service contract research from experimental design to data report based on Cell Avidity measurements at high throughput.
z-Movi
For small sized Cell Avidity studies
A fast and simple solution for single-sample Cell Avidity experiments. Run up to 20 measurements per day.
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Cell Avidity Technology Brochure
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Text Link
Bicistronic CAR T Cell against BCMA and CD229 Effectively Controls Myeloma Even When BCMA Expression Is Limited
Rodríguez-Lobato, L. G. et al.
2025
Cancer Immunology Research
https://doi.org/10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-24-1313
Publication
Text Link
Identification of potent biparatopic antibodies targeting FGFR2 fusion driven cholangiocarcinoma
Chaturantabut, S. et al.
2025
J. Clin. Investigation
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/182417
Publication
Text Link
Rational Chemical and Genetic Modifications Enhance Avidity and Function of CD70-Directed CAR T Cells for Myeloid Leukemia
Leick, M. B. et al.
2022
Cancer Cell
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2022.04.001
Publication
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01-01-20
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April 22, 2025
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CICON 2025
Conference
April 22, 2025
01-01-20
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