$10m series B sees EyeGate advance drug-delivery programmes:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Ophthalmic drug delivery company EyeGate Pharma has raised $10m in a series B financing led by two Paris, France-based investors Innoven Partenaires and Ventech. This brings the total investment received by EyeGate to $14m.The round will be kept open for potential US investors, says the Waltham, Massachusetts company. The firm, which is using iontophoresis technology to noninvasively deliver drugs for ocular diseases, intends to use the proceeds to begin human clinical trials in 2007 for its two lead programmes. The first programme focuses on severe uveitis and the second on glaucoma.