Paul Carter

Genentech Fellow, Antibody Engineering

Postdoc Mentor

"My passion is the pursuit of breakthrough antibody-based therapeutics that transform the lives of patients."

Years at Genentech

Publications

Awards & Honors

I joined Genentech as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 1986 and left as a Senior Scientist and Head of the Postdoctoral Program in 2000. I had the good fortune to rejoin Genentech in 2010 as a Senior Director and Staff Scientist to lead the Antibody Engineering Department where I am now a Genentech Fellow.

I began research on antibodies many years ago when it was unclear if these complex proteins would ever provide meaningful benefit to patients. I co-initiated antibody humanization at Genentech with a novel and patentable method. This technology has utilized over many years for the discovery of 9 approved antibody products that have been used to treat millions of patients worldwide. We developed ‘knobs-into-holes’ technology that was incorporated into a one-armed antibody and 5+ bispecific antibodies that have reached clinical trials. We also developed a common light chain technology has used by several different companies for developing bispecific antibodies including 1 approved product. We invented technologies for high-level expression of antibody Fab fragments in E. coli used for 1 approved antibody product.

I have authored or co-authored 117+ scientific publications that together have been cited 19,800+ times. I am an inventor or co-inventor on 48+ granted US patents and 59+ published US patent applications. I have co-organized 18+ international conferences on antibody engineering and antibody therapeutics. I have delivered 119+ conference presentations and invited lectures including 12+ keynote presentations.

Featured Publication

Next generation antibody drugs: pursuit of the ‘high-hanging fruit’

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (2018) 17, 197-223

Paul J. Carter and Greg A. Lazar

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My research interests focus on inventing new antibody technologies and applying them to develop future generations of antibody therapeutics. My prime motivator is the desire to create breakthrough antibody drugs with novel or enhanced functions that provide new options for patients.

In recent years I have spent much time thinking about the future of antibody therapeutics and how to make currently intractable targets druggable. We view this as pursuit of the ‘high-hanging fruit’ – see featured publication.

Dissecting the molecular basis of high viscosity of monospecific and bispecific IgG antibodies

mAbs, ISSN: 19420862

Cholpon Tilegenova; Saeed Izadi; Peter Yin; Christine Huang; Jiansheng Wu; Diego Ellerman; Sarah Hymowitz; Benjamin Walters; Cleo Salisbury; Paul Carter

Characterization of bispecific and mispaired IgGs by native charge-variant mass spectrometry

International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, ISSN: 13873806

Wilson Phung; Guanghui Han; Stéphanie G.I. Polderdijk; Michael Dillon; Whitney Shatz; Peter Liu; Bingchuan Wei; Pawankumar Suresh; David Fischer; Christoph Spiess; Aaron O. Bailey; Paul J. Carter; Jennie Lill; Wendy Sandoval

Elucidating heavy/light chain pairing preferences to facilitate the assembly of bispecific IgG in single cells

mAbs, ISSN: 19420870

Kamal Kishore Joshi; Wilson Phung; Guanghui Han; Yiyuan Yin; Ingrid Kim; Wendy Sandoval; Paul J. Carter

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Paul Carter

Genentech Fellow, Antibody Engineering

Featured Publication

Next generation antibody drugs: pursuit of the ‘high-hanging fruit’