Only Good Antibodies Community

Better Antibodies, Better Science, Better Treatments: Making best practices possible, easy, and rewarded.

• Dr Harvinder Virk
• Dr Eva M Krockow
• Dr Michael Biddle

The Only Good Antibodies community was established in April 2023 by a collaboration of biomedical and behavioural researchers from the University of Leicester. We are a diverse collaboration of scientists and stakeholders from across the Biosciences, working to improve research that uses antibodies.

There is a long-known issue with antibodies used for research, in that a large proportion of these antibodies do not recognise the target they are meant to, or they also recognise lots of other targets. Studies suggest that this is a problem for more than half of available antibodies, and has been called the ‘antibody horror show’. OGA aims to address this.

'Good antibodies' are potent and selective in the application of interest and display no lot-to-lot variability. The OGA community will work with all stakeholders to accelerate scientific and drug discovery research by:

• Increasing the availability and use of Good antibodies
• Eliminating the use of poorly-performing antibodies

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