miRagen and Servier extend collaboration on microRNA-targeting therapeutics

9 May 2017

Privately-held French pharma firm Servier and US biotech miRagen Therapeutics (Nasdaq: MGEN) have extended their research collaboration through September 2019.

MicroRNA-92 has been added to the existing collaboration as a new therapeutic target, with the objective to start testing MRG-110 in humans within a year.

MRG-110, the lead product candidate under the collaboration, inhibits the activity of microRNA-92, which has been shown to be a regulator of new blood vessel creation in multiple peer reviewed scientific publications. This may indicate that MRG-110 could be useful in the treatment of ischemic disease, cardiovascular disease and certain other vascular flow related diseases.

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