About the company

Avacta Group Plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development of cancer therapies in the United Kingdom, South Korea, and internationally. Its lead product candidate is AVA6000, a peptide drug conjugate form of doxorubicin, which is an approved cancer drug with known severe toxicities. The company is developing AVA6103, a peptide drug conjugate technology designed to deliver exatecan, a potent topoisomerase I inhibitor directly to tumors while limiting the exposure of the released exatecan in normal tissues; and AVA7100 that drives localization to fibroblast activation protein expressing tumors. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.