15th Jul 2014 10:08
LONDON (Alliance News) - Avacta Group PLC said Tuesday that it has appointed life sciences research and development supplier Cosmo Bio Co Ltd as its Japanese distributor for its Affimers products.
Affimers are engineered alternatives to antibodies. Avacta is focused on commercialising its Affimers via its customer Affimer services, and later in the year will offer them through an online catalogue of reagents.
Cosmo will market and support both the custom Affimer services and the online catalogue.
"Japan is an important market for us and Cosmo are an excellent partner who are associated with some well known reagent suppliers," said Chief Executive Alastair Smith.
No financial details were disclosed.
Shares in Avacta were trading up 1.8% at 1.12 pence Tuesday morning.
By Hana Stewart-Smith; [email protected]; @HanaSSAllNews
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