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Novartis-partnered RNA start-up launches

by Rowan Walrath
August 23, 2024 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 102, Issue 26

 

Versant Ventures and Novartis have launched Borealis Biosciences. Borealis will develop RNA medicines with a focus on kidney disease. The start-up has $150 million in series A funding from Versant and Novartis and a partnership with the latter. Borealis’s founders have called it “Chinook Therapeutics 2.0”—a nod to the Versant-founded kidney disease firm Novartis bought in 2023.

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