Avacta advances FAP-activated AVA6103 cancer therapy
Avacta Group chief executive Christina Coughlin presented the company’s interim results and outlined progress with its pre|CISION peptide drug conjugate platform. The platform is designed to keep potent drug payloads masked until they reach tumour tissue, where the enzyme FAP can cleave the peptide and release the drug. Avacta says FAP is abundant in the stroma around solid tumours and largely absent from healthy tissue, a feature intended to improve the therapeutic index of drugs whose toxicity can limit their use. The lead programme, AVA6103, is a FAP-activated, controlled-release form of the chemotherapy payload exatecan. The provided transcript excerpt contains no clinical results, financial figures or development timelines. Avacta’s update concerns biotechnology and does not report a direct cryptocurrency-market development.
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