Antibody-drug conjugates: design and clinical progress

: Antibody-drug conjugates, constructed with monoclonal antibodies, linker and cytotoxins, have distinctive advantages over chemotherapy drugs and antibody drugs in cancer therapy. In this review, the strategy of developing ADCs, and the important progress in past decade are well summarized. The representative ADCs in the pipeline are introduced and characterized with their new features. While, perspective for future directions of ADCs is proposed.