ARW ON RNA
Though it’s not a question we can answer fully yet, in the first of this two-part article, CureVac CEO Alexander Zehnder starts us down the path of answering a critical question about our RNA therapies: In what ways can and should our mRNA products add value to our patients’ lives?
OUR EXPERT NETWORK
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Tune Therapeutics' 2025 Epigenome Editing Outlook
Chief Scientific Officer Derek Jantz talks about recent key innovations in gene therapy and RNA technology while considering what milestones we might see in 2025.
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RNA Therapeutics As We Enter 2025: Looking Beyond The Horizon Of First-Generation Success
As we enter 2025, RNA therapeutics are poised to command significant attention from industry leaders as well as emerging players.
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2025 Forecast For Advanced Therapies
As we reflect on the lessons from 2024, it’s time to consider what 2025 may hold for the industry. Special attention is given to oligos, mRNA, cell therapies, and AAV.
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Go From Batch To Continuous RNA Purification With mAb Equipment And QBD
University of Sheffield researchers developed a novel method purify polyadenylated mRNA continuously, which stands to improve productivity and efficiency.
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FDA Issues New Guidance: Nonclinical Safety Assessment Of Oligonucleotide-Based Therapeutics
FDA's CDER recently issued a draft guidance: Nonclinical Safety Assessment of Oligonucleotide-Based Therapeutics. This article provides a summary and analysis. The public comment period ends January 14, 2025.
WEBINARS
MEET ARW
I’ve spent the past 10 years building relationships across the biologics and advanced therapies industry. In addition to hosting conversations and writing thought leadership articles, my goal as the editorial and community director for Advancing RNA is to find creative ways for the RNA (and broader ATMP) space to discuss, debate, and ultimately define a mature RNA therapeutics industry.
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ARW ON BUSINESS OF BIOTECH
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In close partnership with Johns Hopkins and TriLink BioTechnologies, Jeff Coller, Ph.D. and Michelle Kim, Ph.D. have built a sandbox for RNA developers and aspirational RNA business builders to play in. On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, we team up once again with Advancing RNA's Anna Rose Welch to learn about the venture, dubbed the Johns Hopkins University RNA Innovation Center.
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Dr. Tal Zaks joins the Business of Biotech for the second part of "Story Time With Tal," discussing his transition from Moderna's CMO during the COVID-19 pandemic to co-founding Exsilio Therapeutics, an mRNA startup. The episode explores Exsilio's foundation, scientific focus, team recruitment, and its $82 million Series A funding led by Novartis Venture Fund and Delos Capital, with support from prominent investors like OrbiMed, CRISPR Therapeutics, and J.P. Morgan Life Sciences Private Capital.
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Tal Zaks, M.D. was Chief Medical Officer at Moderna before, during, and immediately following the company's headline role during the COVID pandemic. If that doesn't pique your interest about the stories he can tell, this episode of the Business of Biotech surely will. Tune in to the first installment of this two-part episode for insight from the early days of mRNA that you probably haven't heard before.
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This week, it’s another “Business of Biotech-meets-Business-of-RNA” takeover with Circio CEO Erik Digman Wiklund, Ph.D. and guest co-host Anna Rose Welch of Advancing RNA. While Circio’s legacy is in cancer immunology (it still boasts a cancer vaccine candidate targeting KRAS driver mutations), the company made a bold pivot, of sorts, when it committed headlong to the circular RNA future. Now, it’s in the throes of fine-tuning a platform for the development of novel circRNA medicines for rare disease, vaccines, and cancer.
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Guest co-host Anna Rose Welch of Advancing RNA fame joins us on this week’s Business of Biotech podcast for a conversation with the leaders of RNA upstart Radar Therapeutics. The company’s co-founders, Eerik Kaseniit, Ph.D. (CSO & President) and Sophia Lugo (CEO), are making waves in the mRNA therapeutics space on the heels of the invention of a precision-expressed mRNA technology that laid bare the path to Radar’s inception.
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As if Orna Therapeutics' CEO, Thomas Barnes, isn't enough to draw you in to the Business of Biotech, we teamed up with Advancing RNA Editorial & Community Director Anna Rose Welch to co-host this week's episode. Together, Anna Rose and I press Dr. Barnes on his transition from academia to biotech, the therapeutic proposition of circular, or "O", RNA and why it holds great potential to best linear RNA constructs, the novel, platform- and partnership-based approaches Orna is taking to address B-cell lymphomas and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, viral vector and lipid nanoparticle complexity, and a whole lot more.
VIRTUAL EVENTS
- Achieving Next-Generation mRNA-LNP Therapeutics Delivery
- From Bottleneck To Breakthrough: Reimagining The mRNA Therapeutics Supply Chain
- Can We Do Better? Current & Future Realities of mRNA Process Development
- Opening The "Black Box" Of The mRNA Regulatory Paradigm
- Got Raw Materials? The State Of The mRNA Supply Chain
- mRNA For Cancer Immunotherapy: 2024 Outlook
NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE
- 01.15.25 -- 2025 Forecast For Advanced Therapies
- 01.08.25 -- 2025 Outlook From RNA Leaders
- 12.23.24 -- Omics Technologies - Leveraging ML To Solve Challenges In Diagnostics And Drug Development
- 12.23.24 -- Top 10 Of 2024
- 12.18.24 -- Enhancing Biotech Efficacy And Accelerating mRNA Development
- 12.18.24 -- "Ghosts of mRNA Past & Present:" 6 RNA Execs Revisit 2024