oncology drug
Avacta is a clinical stage oncology drug company and developer of powerful diagnostics based on its innovative, propitiatory Affimer® and pre|CISION™ platforms
Avacta Life Sciences has two divisions; therapeutics and diagnostics.
Avacta’s therapeutics division, based in Cambridge, U.K. develops novel cancer immunotherapies combining its two proprietary platforms – Affimer® biotherapeutics and pre|CISIONTM 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 Affimer® platform is a novel class of biotherapeutic based on a naturally occurring human protein. It is Avacta’s proprietary therapeutic platform with its intellectual property covered by several patent families.
Avacta’s proprietary pre|CISIONTM targeted chemotherapy platform, releases active drug only in the tumour, thereby limiting systemic exposure and improving the overall safety and therapeutic potential of these powerful anti-cancer treatments. Avacta took its first pre|CISIONTM drug candidate AVA6000, a targeted form of the standard-of-care Doxorubicin, into the clinic in summer 2021.