ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Ltd (IPA)

ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Ltd. engages in the antibody production and related services in the United States, Canada, Europe, and internationally. Its services include B cell sorting, screening and sequencing; custom, immune, and naive phage display production and screening; transgenic animals and multispecies antibody discovery; bi-specific, tri-specific, VHH, and VNAR (shark) antibody manufacturing; DNA cloning, protein and antibody downstream processing, purification in gram scale levels, and characterization and validation; antibody engineering; transient and stable cell line generation; antibody optimization and humanization; hybridoma production with screening and clone-picking; cryopreservation; affinity measurements, functional assays, and epitope mapping and binning; and modeling, design, and manufacturing of custom antigen. The company has a collaboration with University of Victoria to develop a saliva-based antibody-based test for the detection and screening of COVID-19; Zymeworks Inc. for the development of multiple antibody candidates to fight COVID-19; and National Research Council of Canada's Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre to develop neutralizing PolyTope antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, as well as a research partnership with Mila. ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Ltd. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota.