Early progress towards therapeutic Affimers
| Market Data: Mkt Cap (£m): 76.6 Sector: Pharmaceuticals & Biotech |
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| Blood clotting disorders: Avacta has commenced a two-year pre-clinical study to examine the effects of Affimer candidates on clot formation and prevention. Once in-vitro & in-vivo data are available, the best candidates will be considered for clinical studies as potential drugs for clotting disorders or anti-thrombotics. |
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| Risks: Although Affimers have significant advantages over traditional antibody technology, the customer base might take time to realise these advantages and adapt to a new disruptive technology. Avacta is minimising this risk by initially focusing on areas where antibodies are unavailable or perform poorly. |
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| Investment summary: The enterprise value of Avacta does not reflect the value that big pharma is prepared to pay for new technologies and assets. The median up-front paid is US$17m and US$40m for pre-clinical and Phase I assets respectively. These figures were exemplified superbly by the deals that Molecular Partners secured for its comparable DARPin technology. |
Avacta Group is a biotechnology company that is developing biotherapeutics and reagents based on its proprietary Affimer technology, an engineered alternative to antibodies. Affimer® reagents and therapeutics are a class of non-antibody binding proteins that have been engineered for a range of applications where antibodies and aptamers have limitations. Co. has two operating segments: Life Sciences, which provides custom Affimers for reagents and diagnostics, drug and biomarker discovery in biotech research and development; and Animal Health, which provides tools and contract services to assist diagnosis of conditions in animals to enable treatment for veterinarians.
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