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Article History

Accepted: 20 April 2023

First Online: 12 June 2023

Competing interests

: C.D. has received research funding from Pierre Fabre and Sanofi, and has worked as a consultant for Sanofi and Bristol-Myers Squibb. He is shareholder and co-founder of Mablink Pharma. J.M.R. is employed by The Antibody Society, a non-profit trade association funded by corporate sponsors that develop antibody therapeutics or provide services to companies that develop antibody therapeutics, and she is Editor-in-Chief of <i>mAbs</i>, a biomedical journal focused on topics relevant to antibody therapeutics development. P.D.S. is an employee of Seattle Genetics. J.M.L. was an employee of ImmunoGen, Inc. from 1987 to 2017, Waltham, MA, USA. ImmunoGen developed the maytansinoid linker-payload technology utilized in the ADCs trastuzumab emtansine and mirvetuximab soravtansine discussed in this paper. Since 2018, J.M.L. has consulted for ImmunoGen and several other biotechnology companies developing ADCs. A.B. is an employee of the Pierre Fabre Research Institute, Saint-Julien en Genevois, France, which has licensed telisotuzumab (ABT-700) anti-cMet antibody to AbbVie and developed the ADC telisotuzumab vedotin.