Early Movers in RNAi
Executive Summary
Novartis AG has led a handful of Big Pharma into the potential new therapeutic modality of RNAi. Here we review those early moves in this nascent field, and take a look at which of the industry's big players has got game in RNAi. Sidebar to "Big Pharma's Leap into Biologics: Bridging both Scientific and Cultural Gaps"
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Traversa Therapeutics Inc
Traversa aims to solve a fundamental problem: the adequate delivery of short interfering RNA molecules to a wide range of cell types via a non-cytoxic mechanism.
SanoGene Therapeutics Inc.
SanoGene Therapeutics thinks it will be able to enhance outcomes for glioblastoma patients by following the unavoidable brain surgery with an injection of targeted plasmids containing short sequences of RNA.
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