MacroGenics is the antibody engineering company behind margetuximab and several bispecific and ADC programmes.
MacroGenics, based in Rockville, Maryland, and listed as MGNX, is an antibody engineering company behind margetuximab and a series of bispecific and antibody-drug conjugate programmes. Its Fc-optimisation and DART bispecific platforms produced margetuximab, sold as Margenza and approved in 2020 for HER2-positive breast cancer, vobramitamab duocarmazine, a B7-H3 ADC paused after toxicity, and lorigerlimab, a PD-1 by CTLA-4 bispecific. OnCo links it to HER2-positive breast cancer and to the margetuximab drug record. Whether platform companies can turn engineering advantages into products that beat entrenched antibodies is the question its record poses. Margetuximab has its own page.
A trastuzumab look-alike with an engineered tail that binds immune cells more tightly; approved in 2020 but rarely used after ADCs arrived.
Lorigerlimab is an experimental bispecific antibody from MacroGenics in phase 2 trials for ovarian cancer, vulvar cancer and cervical cancer, aimed at PD-1 and CTLA-4.