UK – Immunocore, a Milton Park, Oxfordshire, U.K.-based late-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of a novel class of T cell receptor (TCR) bispecific immunotherapies designed to treat a broad range of diseases, including cancer, infectious and autoimmune disease, completed a $75.0m Series C private financing round.
Led by an existing investor, the Series C financing included support from existing investors and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock. The proceeds will enable Immunocore to further expand and accelerate its growing clinical stage pipeline of ImmTAX™ (Immune mobilising monoclonal TCRs Against Cancer, Infectious Diseases and Autoimmune) molecules, including its lead program tebentafusp (IMCgp100).Immunocore also announces that it has closed a $100.0 million senior secured loan facility with Oxford Finance LLC and intends to use the loan proceeds for general corporate purposes and to have available as needed to fund a potential commercial launch of tebentafusp.Led by Bahija Jallal, Chief Executive Officer, Immunocore is a late-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of a novel class of TCR bispecific immunotherapies called ImmTAX – Immune mobilizing monoclonal TCRs Against X disease – designed to treat a broad range of diseases, including cancer, infectious and autoimmune. Leveraging its proprietary ImmTAX platform, the company is developing a deep pipeline in multiple therapeutic areas, including five clinical stage programs in oncology and infectious disease, advanced pre-clinical programs in autoimmune disease and multiple earlier pre-clinical programs. Its most advanced oncology therapeutic candidate, tebentafusp, has demonstrated monotherapy activity in a Phase 2 clinical trial in metastatic uveal melanoma, a cancer that has historically proven to be insensitive to other immunotherapies, and is currently being studied in an ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial. Collaboration partners include Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly and Company, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The company also has offices in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania and Rockville, Maryland in the United States. 13/01/2020
