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CAMP4’s funding influx paves the way for tapping regulatory RNA to treat urea cycle disorders

Pharmaceutical Technology

Last week, CAMP4 Therapeutics announced the close of a $100 million Series B round , which will be used to advance their regulatory RNA (regRNA)-focused programs. The most common marketed drugs in this space aim to address the hyperammonaemia caused by the defective genes in this disorder.

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Beyond Covid-19: the disruptive potential of RNA-based therapeutics

Pharmaceutical Technology

More importantly, they were the first mRNA vaccines to reach the market for any indication worldwide. Further, the acceptance of new mRNA vaccines has rejuvenated activity within previously established categories of RNA therapeutics including lifesaving antisense technologies.

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Merck and Orna partner for RNA technology-based vaccines and therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Merck (MSD outside North America) has entered a partnership agreement with Orna Therapeutics for discovering, developing and marketing various programmes based on next-generation RNA technology. By self-circularisation, Orna’s oRNA technology makes circular ribonucleic acids (oRNAs) from linear RNAs.

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ReviR Therapeutics partners with Asieris to develop new oncology therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

The collaboration is aimed at discovering and developing new advanced treatments for genitourinary (GU) tumours as well as other related serious diseases using ReviR’s RNA-targeted technologies. The company’s VoyageR AI platform integrates computational methods to drug traditionally undruggable RNA targets.

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Do pharma marketers have a responsibility to the public?

World of DTC Marketing

IN BRIEF: As a marketer, most of us, like a Jungian archetype, are true Communicators. As a pharma marketer who has worked in many other therapeutic categories and recently on a Covid launch, I have become acutely aware of the interaction between national poles and the on-the-ground sentiment I have observed.

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GreenLight and US NIH partner to develop Covid-19 vaccine for variants

Pharmaceutical Technology

In March, the company entered a licensing agreement with Serum Institute of India (SII) to expedite access to messenger RNA products in emerging markets worldwide. In November last year, GreenLight and Samsung Biologics entered a collaboration agreement to manufacture mRNA Covid-19 vaccines.

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Jupiter Neurosciences Makes Way in CNS Treatments with $11M IPO

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Jupiter Neurosciences, a clinical-stage pharma company specializing in neuroinflammation, made its public market debut with an initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “JUNS.” ” The company priced 2,750,000 shares of common stock at $4.00