by | Jul 9, 2020 | Gong, Yong-feng, Hou, Jianghui
— Disease indication: metabolic disorders including insulin resistance and diabetic nephropathy
Drug format: chemically modified synthetic microRNA (miRNA)
Drug class: first-in-class for metabolic disease
Research stage and Preliminary data:
Target: miR-29 mimics can increase the gene expressio…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Gong, Yong-feng, Hou, Jianghui
— Background: Brain tumors are the most lethal disease known to mankind with approximately 170,000 annual diagnoses and 13,000 deaths attributed to brain cancer. Glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive, has a median survival of approximately 18 months. Chemotherapeutic agents have been approved b…