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ESMO signage in Madrid. — At ESMO 2023, antibody-drug conjugates were featured prominently. Andrew Joseph/STAT

MADRID — If you had to pinpoint one subject that stood out at this year’s European Society for Medical Oncology meeting, a massive conference with thousands of people from 140-some countries and 2,500 studies presented, it would be a burgeoning type of cancer treatment called antibody-drug conjugates.

The conference opened to the news that Merck had signed one of the biggest licensing deals in industry history — worth up to $22 billion — to partner on three of the compounds from ADC specialist Daiichi Sankyo. GSK followed up with an ADC licensing announcement of its own (if a much smaller one). Multiple ADC studies were presented at the meeting’s top sessions. ADCs were, in short, the belle of the cancer research ball.

The thing is, ADCs are actually quite an old approach.

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