Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on cancer immunotherapy products based on its T-cell receptor platform. The Company has developed a platform that enables to identify cancer targets in the form of peptides, which are short sequences of amino acids, find and genetically engineer T-cell receptors (TCRs), and produce TCR therapeutic candidates for administration to patients. The Company's target peptides are NY-ESO-1 and MAGE A-10. The Company's affinity-enhanced TCR therapeutics targets the NY-ESO-1, or NY-ESO, cancer antigen. The Company has completed the Phase I/II clinical trials for its NY-ESO TCR therapeutic candidate, in patients with solid tumors and hematological malignancies, including synovial sarcoma, multiple myeloma, melanoma, ovarian cancer and esophageal cancer.