It also contributes to responses to defend our intellectual properties and extension of patent protection, provides critical support for life-cycle management of marketed products, responds to questions from post-marketing safety, legal, pharmaceutical manufacturing and regulatory for marketed products world-wide, and publication of scientific information in patents and manuscripts. The Local Delivery Translational Sciences (LDTS) organization at AbbVie, leads the strategy, generation, analyses, interpretations, and reporting of non-clinical data and communications/agreements with global regulatory agencies in the areas of Translational Pharmacology, Non-clinical Pharmacokinetics, Exposure-Response, Immunogenicity, and Biopharmaceutics.