Africa and in its aftermath, the passive administration of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) emerged as a promising treatment approach [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] . However, all antibody-based therapeutics currently in advanced development are specific for a single member of the Ebolavirus genus, Ebola virus (EBOV), and ineffective against divergent outbreak-causing ebolaviruses, including Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) and Sudan virus (SUDV) 2,3,5,7 . Here we advance MBP134, a cocktail of two broadly neutralizing human mAbs targeting the filovirus surface glycoprotein, GP, as a candidate pan-ebolavirus therapeutic. One component of this cocktail is a pan-ebolavirus neutralizing mAb, ADI-15878, isolated from a human EVD survivor 8,9 . The second, ADI-23774, was derived by affinity maturation of a human mAb 8,9 via yeast display to enhance its potency against SUDV. MBP134 afforded exceptionally potent pan-ebolavirus neutralization in vitro and demonstrated greater protective efficacy than ADI-15878 alone in the guinea pig model of lethal EBOV challenge.A second-generation cocktail, MBP134 AF , engineered to effectively harness natural killer (NK) cells afforded additional, unprecedented improvements in protective efficacy against EBOV and SUDV in guinea pigs relative to both its precursor and to any mAbs or mAb cocktails tested previously. MBP134 AF is a best-in-class mAb cocktail suitable for evaluation as a pan-ebolavirus therapeutic in nonhuman primates.We previously isolated and characterized 349 GP-specific mAbs from a survivor of the West African EVD epidemic 9 . A systematic analysis of this library for breadth of the neutralizing mAb response against ebolaviruses identified ADI-15878 as a promising candidate therapeutic 8 .ADI-15878 possesses potent pan-ebolavirus neutralizing activity through its recognition of a 2
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