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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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3rd RNA-Targeted Drug Discovery Summit

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The world of drug discovery and chemical probes is still protein-centric and developing highly selective small molecules targeting RNA is often considered to be an insurmountable challenge. Why You Should Attend the RNA- Targeted Drug Discovery Summit. The post 3rd RNA-Targeted Drug Discovery Summit appeared first on.

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Conversations from ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024 

Drug Discovery World

DDW’s Megan Thomas caught up with Oliver Rausch, Chief Scientific Officer at Storm Therapeutics, following the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024, a global meeting focusing on promising new anticancer targets and agents, focusing on those in early phase clinical development. MT: What’s next for STORM’s research?

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Gene Therapy and Pharmacokinetics

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When developing a clinical development program for these increasingly popular therapies, it is important that sponsors use modeling and pharmacokinetic (PK) analysis to evaluate parameters that can be measured while dosing with gene therapy drugs, to characterize exposure-response data and inform rational dosing.

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The role of RNA in immunotherapies

Drug Discovery World

Reece Armstrong speaks to Samuel Deutsch , Chief Scientific Officer of Nutcracker Therapeutics about the RNA landscape and how it can benefit the development of immunotherapies. RA: What role does RNA play in the development of effective immunotherapies? SD: This is definitely a challenge.

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Bayer strengthens gene therapy portfolio with lipid nanoparticle technology from Acuitas Therapeutics

The Pharma Data

Acuitas’ LNP technology will support Bayer’s in vivo gene editing and protein replacement programs by specifically delivering RNA payloads to the desired target organ, the liver. LNPs are spheric drug delivery bodies which can be equipped with therapeutic payloads for intracellular delivery.

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Pfizer begins US pilot delivery programme for COVID-19 vaccine

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There are 11 potential COVID vaccines in late-stage clinical development and since Pfizer’s announcement two more groups from Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute and US biotech Moderna have published favourable efficacy results.