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Name
Alastair Smith
Title
CEO
Bio
Alastair is the founder of Avacta, a biotech start-up with around 80 staff in two sites in Wetherby and Cambridge, and has been responsible for leading the management, strategic development and fund raising for the company since IPO on AIM in 2006.
Since 2012 Alastair has raised over £50m for Avacta to develop and commercialise Affimer® proteins. Avacta is focused on novel immunotherapies for cancer and will be in the clinic with its first programme in 2020.
The company is also building a revenue stream through licensing of Affimer® proteins to replace antibodies in diagnostics and research products.
Alastair has a degree and PhD in Physics from Manchester University and, after working in the US for a period, took up a position at Leeds University in 1995. At the age of 38 he was awarded the Chair of Molecular Biophysics and grew, over ten years, one of the leading biophysics research groups in Europe. He left his academic career in 2007 to focus full time on building value for Avacta shareholders.
Since 2012 Alastair has raised over £50m for Avacta to develop and commercialise Affimer® proteins. Avacta is focused on novel immunotherapies for cancer and will be in the clinic with its first programme in 2020.
The company is also building a revenue stream through licensing of Affimer® proteins to replace antibodies in diagnostics and research products.
Alastair has a degree and PhD in Physics from Manchester University and, after working in the US for a period, took up a position at Leeds University in 1995. At the age of 38 he was awarded the Chair of Molecular Biophysics and grew, over ten years, one of the leading biophysics research groups in Europe. He left his academic career in 2007 to focus full time on building value for Avacta shareholders.
