IPA Acquires the Carterra LSA® Instrument to Enhance Antibody Discovery and Bolster Its AI Developments

Significant throughput of LSA to advance IPA’s diversity- and data-driven drug development and to enrich LENS^ai™.

VICTORIA, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IPA (IMMUNOPRECISE ANTIBODIES LTD.) (the “Company” or “IPA”) (NASDAQ: IPA), an artificial intelligence-driven biotherapeutic research and technology company, today announced that it has acquired the LSA^® instrument platform from Carterra^®, a leading provider of high-throughput large and small molecule screening and characterization solutions. This instrument allows for high throughput surface plasmon resonance-based antibody characterizations thereby significantly increasing the Company’s capacity in performing various label-free protein interaction analyses including best-in-class kinetics, epitope binning, quantitation, epitope mapping, and blocking/neutralization assays.

IPA remains committed to expanding its contract research organization (CRO) capabilities and leveraging technology to drive innovation and efficiency, particularly in AI-driven drug design. Carterra’s LSA instrument delivers significant throughput in short time frames requiring only small sample volumes. This fits well with the company’s established high throughput capabilities and diversity- and data-driven drug discovery, delivering huge amounts of valuable data points at an early-stage to advance the lead triaging process. The efficiency gain resulting from the acquisition will not only expedite the Company’s in vitro characterizations for clients and partners, but also rapidly fuels LENS^ai with valuable data sets to optimize models for next gen in silico drug discovery and development utilizing their proprietary HYFTs to aggregate and integrate biological data.

“The significance of our LENS^ai technology extends beyond just the creation of an advanced tool,” says IPA’s Chief Executive Officer and President, Jennifer Bath, PhD. “It represents a strategic move to capture the growing interest in and huge potential of AI-driven drug discovery and digital biology. Complementing our well-established high throughput antibody discovery, production, and screening capabilities, Carterra’s LSA gets us closer to making ours the fastest and most cost-effective drug discovery workflow.”

“We couldn’t be more excited to join with IPA in changing the way drugs are discovered,” said Tim Germann, Chief Commercial Officer at Carterra. “The LSA has made the use of AI in antibody discovery a reality; nothing generates more data in as little time to train AI/ML engines.”

About ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Ltd.

ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Ltd. has several subsidiaries in North America and Europe including entities such as Talem Therapeutics LLC, BioStrand BV, ImmunoPrecise Antibodies (Canada) Ltd. and ImmunoPrecise Antibodies (Europe) B.V. (collectively, the “IPA Family”). The IPA Family is a biotherapeutic research and technology group that leverages systems biology, multi-omics modelling and complex artificial intelligence systems to support its proprietary technologies in bioplatform-based antibody discovery. Services include highly specialized, full-continuum therapeutic biologics discovery, development, and out-licensing to support its business partners in their quest to discover and develop novel biologics against the most challenging targets. For further information, visit www.ipatherapeutics.com.

About Carterra, Inc.:

Carterra, Inc. is a privately held company. Its HT-SPR technology provides large-molecule and small-molecule drug discovery customers with screening and characterization throughput and functionality that scales with omics-level applications, condensing months of work down to days. Our solutions have enabled multiple therapeutics and breakthrough research and helped academic and translational researchers and biopharmaceutical companies in oncology, immunology, neuroscience, and more. Carterra is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has Customer Experience Centers in San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Boston, Manchester, England, and Munich, Germany. Carterra products are available in Asia-Pacific and Oceania through our exclusive distributor, Revvity. To learn more, visit www.carterra-bio.com or connect with us on LinkedIn or X (Twitter).

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