A French company that is working on antibody therapeutics for cancer indications has raised $53 million (€48 million) in a Series B round in order to take its lead product into the clinic. ImCheck Therapeutics SAS is developing a compound that targets a member of the butyrophilin family of checkpoint molecules and engages gamma delta T cells to fight cancer.

ViGeneron GmbH, a spin-out of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, has closed a Series A funding round enabling it to advance two viral vector-based gene therapy platforms and develop two programmes for ophthalmic indications. The size of the funding was not disclosed. It was led by WuXi AppTec Group and Sequoia Capital of China.