With $20.7 Million Series A Cash, RaNA Seeks To Be A Groundbreaker In Long Non-Coding RNA Therapeutics
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Biotech hopes to begin IND-enabling studies in 2013 and bring first candidate into the clinic in 2014 in a new field it believes will have applicability in numerous therapeutic areas.
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