After just four weeks, the Avacta/Cytiva Partnership has successfully generated several highly specific Affimer reagents for a COVID-19 antigen rapid test.
Avacta/Cytiva Partnership Ahead of Schedule
Today’s news release perfectly reflects the exceptional value, advantages and opportunity the Group’s Affimer® technology is capable of creating. The need for antigen tests to diagnose this coronavirus infection that can be mass produced for rapid, professional screening of large populations, and for self-testing by consumers themselves, is crucial to limiting and tracking the spread of this disease.
Antigen testing will also be critical to lockdown exit strategies around the world in order to get healthy, non-contagious people back to work to re-boot economies, together with an ongoing future need for antigen testing given that the disease is likely to recur.
Representing an excellent start to its collaboration with Cytiva, Avacta expects shortly to be able to provide Affimer reagents to implement on their rapid test strip technology. This represents a significant step forward, not only in terms of development of a reputation-building, high-profile new product of global significance, but also near and longer-term commercial opportunities for its platform.
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