Bill Tap's poster presentation & Heights repayment12 Aug 2025 09:50
There is a discrepancy between when the Avacta RNS said the presentation would take place (Friday, 17 Oct) and what it says on the ESMO website (Sunday, 19 Oct):
Title: A Phase I trial of FAP-Dox (AVA6000), a Fibroblast Activation Protein (FAP)-released and tumor microenvironment (TME)-targeted doxorubicin peptide drug conjugate in patients with FAP-positive solid tumors
Session Title: Developmental Therapeutics
Session Date and Time: 17 October, 19:40 - 20:00
Location: Berlin Auditorium - Hub 27
Abstract Presentation Number: 964P
Speaker: William D. Tap
https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/AVCT/avacta-to-present-at-esmo-congress-u6jnp2dn669m5io.html
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Sunday, 19 October 2025, 12:00-12:45 CEST
Developmental therapeutics
964P - A Phase I trial of FAP-Dox (AVA6000), a Fibroblast Activation Protein (FAP)-released and tumor microenvironment (TME)-targeted doxorubicin peptide drug conjugate in patients with FAP-positive solid tumors
Presentation Number 964P
Speakers William D. Tap (New York, United States of America, NY)
https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/esmo2025/attendee/confcal/poster_session_sunday
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I can only assume that Bill Tap is giving an extra presentation during the dead period at the end of the first day of the conference. Expecting a lot of interest? Hopefully!
The ESMO conference takes place just before the next Heights repayment on Tuesday, 21st October. That makes for very tight timing to get the latest Phase 1a data out in time to entice HNWIs and improve the share price. The news shouldn't be publicly available until trading starts on Monday, 20th and that creates an issue for raising cash from a private placing. Will Avacta pay in cash and then do a private placing, or do the private placing before the latest Phase 1a data is publicly available (with consequent questions about insider information), or will Avacta do a bigger placing after ESMO (and also after possible data about AVA6103 and AVA7100 presented at AACR-NCI-EORTC immediately after ESMO)?
In the meantime we will have the interims at the end of September, with possible Phase 1b news then, or earlier, and there is always the possibility of news of funding from licensing and/or partnering and/or other dropping at any time which would obviate the need for a placing of any kind.