Gyroscope Therapeutics, a British gene therapy company that has U.S. operations in King of Prussia, has raised $148 million in venture capital funding.

The five-year-old company has now raised about $265 million over three funding rounds since its inception.

Gyroscope’s Series C financing was led by Forbion’s Growth Opportunities Fund. Other investors are Sofinnova Investments, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Tetragon Financial Group Limited, an undisclosed healthcare focused fund, Fosun Pharma, Cambridge Innovation Capital and founding investor Syncona.

The five-year-old company plans to use the proceeds from the stock sale to advance the development of its lead gene therapy candidate, GT005, a potential treatment for geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration.

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