Interview: OliPass An Oligonucleotide Outsider With Big Ambitions

South Korean bioventure OliPass tells Scrip how it intends to grab a leading position in the global antisense oligonucleotide drug sector using in-house developed technology that it says can both sharply lower prices and increase safety in the field, where it is initially focusing on novel pain therapies.

Shin Chung
OliPass CEO Shin Chung • Source: OliPass

South Korea's OliPass Corp. may not be a mainstream antisense drug company, but it has strong ambitions and the confidence to become a top global oligonucleotide therapeutics company with its platform technology, which it believes to be superior to that developed by some other companies like Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.

"Many companies know about us, but say our data is too fantastic to believe," OliPass CEO Shin Chung said in...

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