Avacta Group plc, a UK-based healthcare technology and consumables business, provides innovative and proprietary solutions to the life sciences/healthcare sector through two operating divisions:

Avacta Analytical provides high-end analytical instrumentation and services to the biopharmaceutical sector, expected to be a US$200bn revenue market by 2013 and the fastest growing part of the pharmaceutical industry. The Company’s technologies are aimed at reducing the risks and expense associated with biological drug development and thereby reducing the final cost of drugs to patients. The Company’s lead analytical instrument, Optim, is distributed through Pall Corporation in US and SE Asia, Isogen Life Sciences in Europe, Cold Spring Biotech Corp in China and Taiwan and DKSH in Japan. Avacta sells Optim directly in the UK.

Avacta Animal Health provides diagnostic products and services for the US$1.5bn global veterinary diagnostics market. Its aim is to equip veterinary professionals with high quality animal health and well-being information through point of care diagnostics and laboratory based testing. Avacta’s AX-1 point of care immunoassay system is aimed at providing the veterinarian with rapid blood test results in the clinic. The initial range of tests launched with the AX-1 relates to Avacta’s world leading allergy testing brand Sensitest®. Avacta is developing further assays for the AX-1 system to diagnose a range of diseases in companion animals. Longer term, these technologies will be transferred into the human clinical diagnostics market.

Avacta joined AIM in August 2006 and is based in Wetherby, England.

http://www.avacta.com/

Covance to Present Affimer Data at Conference
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RNS Number : 4911W
Avacta Group PLC
15 November 2017
 
 
 
15 November 2017
 
Avacta Group plc
("Avacta", "the Group" or "the Company")
 
Covance to Present Affimer Data at European Conference
 
 
Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, is pleased to announce that Covance will be presenting Affimer data from a joint study at the European Bioanalysis Forum 15-17 November 2017 in Barcelona. 
 
Covance will be presenting data that highlights the validation of Affimer as a critical reagent in clinical assays when good batch-to-batch stability and reproducible performance are a regulatory requirement. 
 
The work carried out collaboratively between Avacta and Covance shows that an Affimer assay to detect and quantify the breast cancer drug Trastuzumab shows good sensitivity and increased assay dynamic range compared to current existing antibody based assays. 
 
The study demonstrates that Affimer reagents have the potential to be used as alternatives to antibodies and natural ligands as critical reagents in regulated assays in the development and batch release of therapeutic antibodies.
 
Dr Alastair Smith, Avacta Group Chief Executive Officer, commented:
"Presentation of Affimer data by our partners is strong, independent validation of the technical performance of Affimer reagents and is important to our commercialisation of the technology.  The Group is delighted that the results of this work will be presented at this important European conference by Covance, a global contract research organization that that has worked on all of the top 50 best-selling drugs available today.
 
Reagents such as antibodies or ligand proteins, currently used in regulated bioanalysis of therapeutic proteins have their limitations.  Cost and batch-to-batch variability is a serious and costly issue in critical assays.  The work with Covance shows that Affimers can provide a rapid solution in such assays and additionally benefit from stability of supply.
 
We are now working to capitalise on the commercial opportunity that this presents and I look forward to updating the market on progress in due course."

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