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Scrip Asks...What Does 2022 Hold For Biopharma? Part 3: Technology And Science

Genetic Medicines, RNA Technologies, Protein Degraders Among Hot Areas

 
• By Eleanor Malone

Many industry leaders expect broad progress in the field of RNA technologies following the rapid and successful roll-out of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 last year. Genetic medicines of various types, emerging platforms for tackling previously “undruggable” targets and the microbiome were among other areas singled out as areas to watch in 2022.

Scrip Asks, Part 3
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“Biomedical innovation is at its golden age, and scientific innovation will continue to be strong,” declared Søren Møller, managing partner at Novo Seeds, the life science start-up financing arm of Novo Holdings. His words summed up the general perspective of a great many of the 200+ executives and experts canvassed by Scrip for their views on what the coming year holds for the biopharma industry.

The optimism is perhaps unsurprising, following two pandemic years in which the industry has rapidly delivered effective vaccines and therapeutics...

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