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Notice of Results

13 Feb 2020 07:00

RNS Number : 8226C
Avacta Group PLC
13 February 2020
 

 

13 February 2020

Avacta Group plc

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

 

Notice of Results

 

 

Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, will announce its financial results for the 17 months ended 31 December 2019 on Tuesday, 21 April 2020.

An analyst briefing given by Alastair Smith, Chief Executive Officer and Tony Gardiner, Chief Financial Officer, will be held at 09.30 hrs on Tuesday, 21 April 2020 at finnCap's offices, 60 New Broad St, London EC2M 1JJ.

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For further information from Avacta Group plc, please contact:

 

Avacta Group plc

Alastair Smith, Chief Executive Officer

Tony Gardiner, Chief Financial Officer

 

Tel: +44 (0)844 414 0452

www.avacta.com

finnCap Ltd (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)

Geoff Nash / Giles Rolls - Corporate Finance

Tim Redfern - ECM

Tel: +44 (0)207 220 0500

www.finncap.com

 

Yellow Jersey PR (Financial Media and IR)

Sarah Hollins

Henry Wilkinson

 

Zyme Communications (Trade and Regional Media)

Katie Odgaard

 

Tel: +44 (0)7764 947 137

Tel: +44 (0)7951 402 336

avacta@yellowjerseypr.com

 

Tel: +44 (0)7787 502 947

katie.odgaard@zymecommunications.com

 

 

About Avacta Group plc - https://www.avacta.com

Avacta is developing novel cancer immunotherapies combining its two proprietary platforms - Affimer® biotherapeutics and pre|CISION™ tumour targeted chemotherapy. With this approach, the Company aims to address the lack of a durable response to current immunotherapies experienced by most patients. The Company's therapeutics development activities are based in Cambridge, UK.

 

The Company benefits from near-term revenues generated from Affimer reagents for diagnostics, bioprocessing and research, through a separate business unit based in Wetherby, UK.

The Affimer platform is an alternative to antibodies derived from a small human protein. Despite their shortcomings, antibodies currently dominate markets worth in excess of $100bn. Affimer technology has been designed to address many of these negative performance issues, principally: the time taken, and the reliance on an animal's immune response, to generate new antibodies; poor specificity in many cases; large size and cost.

 

Avacta's pre|CISION platform, activates chemotherapy only in the tumour, thereby limiting systemic exposure and damage to healthy tissues, and thus improving the overall safety and therapeutic potential of these powerful anti-cancer treatments.

 

By combining these two platforms the Company is building a wholly owned pipeline of novel cancer therapies with the aim of creating effective treatments for all cancer patients including those who do not respond to existing immunotherapies. Avacta expects to take its first drug, a pre|CISION targeted form of the standard-of-care Doxorubicin, into the clinic in the middle of 2020.

 

Avacta has established drug development partnerships with pharma and biotech, including with Moderna Therapeutics Inc., a collaboration with LG Chem to develop treatments for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases worth up to $310m, a partnership with ADC Therapeutics to develop Affimer drug conjugates and a joint venture in South Korea with Daewoong Pharmaceuticals to develop the next generation of stem cell therapies that incorporate Affimer immuno-modulators. Avacta actively seeks to license its proprietary platforms in a range of therapeutic areas.

 

The Avacta diagnostics business unit works with partners world-wide to develop Affimers for evaluation by those third parties with the objective of establishing royalty bearing license deals. The Company is also developing a small in-house pipeline of Affimer-based diagnostic assays for licensing.

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