We created our TAP technology to achieve more effective, better tolerated anticancer drugs. A TAP compound is designed to focus its activity on cancer cells – to kill these cells while minimizing damage to healthy tissue.

A TAP compound consists of: a monoclonal antibody that binds specifically to a target – its antigen – found on cancer cells with a potent cell-killing agent attached. The antibody serves to target the compound specifically to cancer cells and the cell-killing agent serves to kill the cancer cells.

We use our TAP technology with our own antibodies to create anticancer compounds. If an antibody is proprietary to another company and not available for our own product programs, we may outlicense our TAP technology to that company. This enables us to derive a potential economic return not otherwise possible and expands the application of our technology.