Avacta Group Regulatory News (AVCT)

19 April 2017

Avacta Group plc

("Avacta" or "the Group" or "the Company")

Avacta to Present at the Shares Spotlight Evening

Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and research reagents, is pleased to announce that its Chief Executive, Alastair Smith, will be presenting at the Shares Spotlight Evening on Wednesday 26th April at the Novotel Hotel, Tower Bridge, London, EC3N 2NR.

The evening event, which begins at 18:00, provides an opportunity for investors to hear about the Company's Affimer® technology, its development plans and to meet with management.

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About 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.

Affimer technology has been designed to address many of the negative performance issues of antibodies, 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 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.