Avacta Group PLC

LSE:AVCT

Avacta Group Plc engages in the provision of Affimer reagents for licensing into third-party research and diagnostic products, and creates new Affimer medicines for development in-house and licensing to large pharmaceutical companies. The company is headquartered in Wetherby, West Yorkshire. The company went IPO on 2003-09-08. The firm is focused on developing cancer immunotherapies and diagnostics based on its Affimer and prelCISION platforms. The company has two divisions: Therapeutics and Diagnostics. Avacta’s therapeutics division develops cancer immunotherapies combining its platforms: Affimer biotherapeutics and prelCISION tumor targeted chemotherapy. The Affimer platform is a class of biotherapeutic based on a naturally occurring human protein. Avacta's prelCISION targeted chemotherapy platform releases active chemotherapy in the tumor, which limits the systemic exposure that causes damage to healthy tissues, and thereby improves the overall safety and therapeutic potential of these anti-cancer treatments. Avacta’s diagnostics division utilizes its Affimer platform to develop diagnostics and works with partners world-wide to develop Affimer reagents with the objective of establishing royalty-bearing license deals.