On the heels of a massive $500 million round, Moderna has picked up another $125 million in preferred equity as it expands its mRNA cancer vaccine partnership with Merck.
Companies that have a strong focus on developing drugs that target messenger RNA (mRNA) may be ahead of the curve when it comes to potentially tapping into a lucrative market space.
Moderna Therapeutics?announced?that it has dosed its first patient in a Phase I trial of mRNA-4157, a messenger RNA (mRNA)-based personalized cancer vaccine.
AstraZeneca and MedImmune, the company’s biologics research arm, have forged a five year research partnership with mRNA-based pulmonary disease specialist Ethris to leverage the latter’s proprietary SNIM RNA technology in the...