Avacta Group Regulatory News (AVCT)

19 October 2017

Avacta Group plc

("Avacta" or "the Company")

Private Shareholder Update Event

Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, will be hosting a Private Shareholder event on Wednesday, 15 November 2017 at 2.00 pm until 4.00 pm at finnCap's offices, 60 New Broad St, London EC2M 1JJ and will take the form of a Company presentation to update shareholders on progress followed by a Q&A session.

The presentation for the event will also be made available on the Company's website.

Investors and shareholders who wish to attend the event should register their interest at:

investorevents@avacta.com

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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.

Antibodies dominate markets worth in excess of $100bn 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.