GammaDelta Therapeutics raises seed funding from Abingworth

16 September 2016

Abingworth, the international investment group dedicated to life sciences, says it has seeded GammaDelta Therapeutics, a new immunotherapy company.

GammaDelta Therapeutics also received support from three organizations, Cancer Research Technology (CRT), King’s College London and the Francis Crick Institute. The company is being incubated at Abingworth’s London office.

GammaDelta Therapeutics has been founded on pioneering research by Professor Adrian Hayday and Dr Oliver Nussbaumer at King’s College London and the Francis Crick Institute, funded in part by Cancer Research UK, into gamma delta (γδ) T cells. These are a unique and conserved population of lymphocytes that contribute to many types of immune responses and immunopathologies. The new company is focused on exploiting this work to develop improved immunotherapies for cancer and potentially other diseases.

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