RxGen and miRagen Therapeutics have received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant of around $720,000 by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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The grant will support continued preclinical research on microRNA targeting in cardiovascular disease and help to establish a novel model system of chronic heart failure.
The research aims to show the potential of miRNA regulation as a novel treatment for cardiac disease.
RxGen CEO Matthew Lawrence said the combination of RxGen’s in-vivo modeling capabilities and miRagen’s microRNA research expertise uniquely positions them to accelerate cardiac applications of microRNA therapeutics.