Novo Holdings A/S is to make an equity investment of up to £53.5 million in Oxford Biomedica Plc which has grown a business around the supply of lentiviral vectors for third parties including Novartis, the developer of Kymriah, the first gene therapy for cancer to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Following the transaction Novo will have a stake of up to 10.1% in the UK company.