BMS’ commitment to precision medicine for patients living with immune-mediated diseases

As a modern class of therapeutics, antibodies continue to change the treatment landscape for cancer. Antibodies are naturally produced Y-shaped proteins whose “arms” grab hold of bacteria, viruses and other possibly dangerous cells while the “leg” recruits immune cells to destroy the invaders. Researchers have leveraged this ability of antibodies into a treatment approach called immunotherapy, in which antibodies, or pieces of antibodies, are designed in the lab to better recognize cancer cells as invaders and call in the immune system to kill them.