Founded in 2015, Secarna Pharmaceuticals entered the antisense drug discovery and development space with the goal of addressing high unmet medical needs using a never-before-seen artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform. It is designed to select and synthesize antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) against challenging or historically undruggable targets across indications.
Secarna Addresses Undruggable Targets With Antisense Platform
At the 2024 BIO International Convention, In Vivo spoke with Secarna Pharmaceuticals' CEO Alexander Gebauer about how the biotech's next-gen antisense oligonucleotide technology aims to benefit patients across multiple indications.
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