07 September 2017
Avacta Group plc
("Avacta", the "Group" or the "Company")
Notice of Results
Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and research reagents, will announce its financial results for the year ended 31 July 2017 on Wednesday, 4 October 2017.
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Avacta Group plc Alastair Smith, Chief Executive Officer Tony Gardiner, Chief Financial Officer
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Notes to Editors
Avacta Group plc (www.avacta.com)
Avacta's principal focus is on its proprietary Affimer® technology which is a novel engineered alternative to antibodies that has wide application in Life Sciences for diagnostics, therapeutics and general research and development.
Antibodies dominate markets worth in excess of $50bn despite their shortcomings. Affimer technology has been designed to address many of these negative performance issues, principally; the time taken to generate new antibodies, the reliance on an animal's immune response, poor specificity in many cases, and batch to batch variability. Affimer technology is based on a small protein that can be quickly generated to bind with high specificity and affinity to a wide range of protein targets.
Avacta has a pre-clinical biotech development programme with an in-house focus on immuno-oncology and bleeding disorders as well as partnered development programmes. Avacta is commercialising non-therapeutic Affimer reagents through licensing to developers of life sciences research tools and diagnostics.