Avacta

Avacta | January 16, 2018

UK companies Avacta and Glythera have sealed a licensing deal to develop drug conjugates using their combined technologies. While specifics of the deal have not been disclosed, it was revealed that Avacta stands to receive development milestone payments and royalties on sales of any drug successfully developed by Glythera.The move follows completion of a proof-of-concept study by the firms which was geared towards showing that Avacta’s Affimer technology could be combined with Glythera&rsq...

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Avacta | November 29, 2021

Avacta Group plc, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative cancer therapies and powerful diagnostics based on its proprietary Affimer® and pre|CISION™ platforms, is pleased to announce that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for AVA6000. This will allow the Group to expand its Phase I clinical trial, ALS-6000-101, into clinical trial sites in the United States. AVA6000 is a novel f...

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Avacta | January 23, 2023

Avacta Group plc, a leading life sciences company focused on developing innovative, targeted oncology medicines and powerful diagnostics, recently announced that AVA6000 has maintained a very favorable safety profile in the fourth dose cohort of the ALS-6000-101 dose escalation phase 1 clinical trial. Furthermore, analysis of tumor samples acquired from six patients across multiple cohorts shows that doxorubicin is being released within the tumor tissue, supporting the pre|CISIONTM technol...

Pharmacy Business | January 14, 2020

The government on Monday announced a collaboration with Novartis to launch a clinical trial for ‘yet to be approved’ drug inclisiran. The drug could benefit thousands of patients at risk of heart disease in coming years. The ground-breaking collaboration includes Novartis, NHS England and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and Oxford University. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) expects this to position the UK as a world-leading destination to develop cut...