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Overview

Robin Thorpe is affiliated with the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily in the fields of immunology and microbiology, economics, econometrics, finance, and medicine. The subfields of their work notably include immunology, economics and econometrics, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and molecular biology.

The scientist's research topics focus on biosimilars and bioanalytical methods, pharmaceutical economics and policy, pharmaceutical studies and practices, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, protein purification and stability, health systems including economic evaluations and quality of life, as well as viral infectious diseases and gene expression in insects.

Robin Thorpe's frequent coauthors include:

  • Hye-Na Kang
  • Ivana Knežević
  • Meenu Wadhwa
  • Hui Ming Chua
  • Maria Savkina

The scientist has published in several venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • Generics and Biosimilars Initiative Journal
  • Biologicals
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • mAbs
  • The Lancet

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Robin Thorpe include:

  • The regulatory landscape of biosimilars: WHO efforts and progress made from 2009 to 2019, 2020, Biologicals
  • Regulatory challenges with biosimilars: an update from 20 countries, 2020, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • International nonproprietary names for monoclonal antibodies: an evolving nomenclature system, 2022, mAbs
  • New INN nomenclature for monoclonal antibodies, 2021, The Lancet
  • Biosimilars - status in July 2020 in 16 countries, 2021, Generics and Biosimilars Initiative Journal

Best Publications

  • Immunochemistry in practice

    Alan P Johnstone;Robin Thorpe

  • Chemokine/chemokine receptor nomenclature

    K. Bacon;M. Baggiolini;Hal Broxmeyer;R. Horuk

  • Biosimilars: what clinicians should know.

    Martina Weise;Marie-Christine Bielsky;Karen De Smet;Falk Ehmann

  • "Cytokine storm" in the phase I trial of monoclonal antibody TGN1412: better understanding the causes to improve preclinical testing of immunotherapeutics

    Richard Stebbings;Lucy Findlay;Cherry Edwards;David Eastwood

  • Monoclonal antibody TGN1412 trial failure explained by species differences in CD28 expression on CD4+ effector memory T-cells.

    D Eastwood;L Findlay;S Poole;C Bird

  • Molecular identity, distribution and heterogeneity of glial fibrillary acidic protein: an immunoblotting and immunohistochemical study of Schwann cells, satellite cells, enteric glia and astrocytes.

    Kristján R. Jessen;Robin Thorpe;Rhona Mirsky

  • Purification of Immunoglobulin G (IgG)

    Michael G. Baines;Robin Thorpe

  • Anti-cytokine autoantibodies in autoimmunity: preponderance of neutralizing autoantibodies against interferon-alpha, interferon-omega and interleukin-12 in patients with thymoma and/or myasthenia gravis

    A. Meager;M. Wadhwa;P. Dilger;C. Bird

  • Biosimilars-why terminology matters.

    Martina Weise;Marie-Christine Bielsky;Karen De Smet;Falk Ehmann

  • Chemokine/chemokine receptor nomenclature

    Kevin Bacon;Marco Baggiolini;Hal Broxmeyer;Richard Horuk

  • A simple sensitive bioassay for interleukin-1 which is unresponsive to 103 U/ml of interleukin-2

    A.J.H. Gearing;C.R. Bird;A. Bristow;S. Poole

  • Book reviewThe cytokine facts book: Callard, R. and Gearing A., vii + 265 pp. academic Press, London, 1994. Paperback GBP 19.50, ISBN 0-12-155143-1

    Robin Thorpe

  • Intrasplenic primary immunization for the production of monoclonal antibodies

    M. Spitz;L. Spitz;R. Thorpe;E. Eugui

  • Strategies for detection, measurement and characterization of unwanted antibodies induced by therapeutic biologicals.

    M Wadhwa;C Bird;P Dilger;R Gaines-Das

  • Taking immunogenicity assessment of therapeutic proteins to the next level.

    I.C. Büttel;P. Chamberlain;Y. Chowers;F. Ehmann

  • Production and assay of the interleukins

    Andrew J.H. Gearing;Alan P. Johnstone;Robin Thorpe

  • Cytokine levels in platelet concentrates: quantitation by bioassays and immunoassays

    M. Wadhwa;M. J. Seghatchian;A. Lubenko;M. Contreras

  • Immunogenicity assessment of biotherapeutic products: An overview of assays and their utility

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  • Cytokine gene expression in a murine wound healing model.

    Donna Bryan;Kenneth B. Walker;Mark Ferguson;Robin Thorpe

  • Detection and measurement of cytokines.

    R. Thorpe;M. Wadhwa;C.R. Bird;A.R. Mire-Sluis

  • Immobilized affinity ligand techniques

    Robin Thorpe

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Pozzilli
Paolo Pozzilli Università Campus Bio-Medico
Stephen Poole
Stephen Poole National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
Anthony Meager
Anthony Meager National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
Simon R. Carding
Simon R. Carding University of East Anglia
Rebecca J. Dearman
Rebecca J. Dearman University of Manchester
Ian Kimber
Ian Kimber University of Manchester
Rosamonde E. Banks
Rosamonde E. Banks University of Leeds
Ten Feizi
Ten Feizi Imperial College London
Philip D. Minor
Philip D. Minor National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
Peter Selby
Peter Selby University of Leeds

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