Categories of Biologics and their applications

Some of the general categories of biologics include:

• Vaccines (used for disease prevention)

• Recombinant proteins (such as insulin or erythropoietin)

• Interleukins (immune molecules that can be used to treat certain infections and cancers)

• Monoclonal antibodies (like those used to treat autoimmune diseases and cancer)

• Bispecific antibodies (next generation strategy for antibodies-to target human diseases such as cancer immunotherapy)

• Stem cell therapies (to treat human diseases such as certain cancers or genetic diseases)

• Other cell therapies (like Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cells used to treat cancer)

• Gene therapies (to treat disease such as those for genetic conditions), etc.