Activartis Biotech GmbH (Formerly Trimed Biotech Gmbh)

Activartis is a biotech company based in Vienna. The majority owner is the Austrian pharmaceutical company AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals AG, which specialises in the development and distribution of pharmaceuticals for Orphan Diseases. Activartis was founded in 2003 as a spin-off of the St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria. Activartis is currently in phase II of clinical trials for a new kind of Cancer Immune Therapy. The therapeutic technology combines a completely new, patented approach, AV0113, that uses a bacterial danger signal together with the patient's tumour antigens, with the concept of Dendritic Cells already marketed. The aim is to enable the immune system to gain control of the cancer. *