HIT Consultant November 30, 2022
Fred Pennic

What You Should Know:

Rgenta Therapeutics Inc. raises a $52M Series A round led by AZ-CICC Healthcare Investment Fund with participation from all existing investors and new investors including Korean Investment Partners, Delos Capital.

– Rgenta Therapeutics is focusing on developing RNA-targeting medicines for historically undruggable disease targets.

Targeting the “Undruggables”

Only a quarter of the proteins implicated in human diseases are currently druggable by traditional approaches for developing small-molecules compounds. Thus, new approaches directly targeting messenger RNAs of disease genes open up unprecedented opportunities for drug development. Rgenta Therapeutics is developing a pipeline of oral, small-molecule RNA-targeting medicines with an initial focus on oncology and neurological disorders. The company’s proprietary platform mines the massive genomics data to identify...

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