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Drug Delivery

Evonik and Stanford sign mRNA delivery pact

by Michael McCoy
June 20, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 23

 

Evonik Industries and Stanford University have signed a 3-year sponsored research pact aimed at commercializing a degradable-polymer-based system for delivering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics. Known as charge-altering releasable transporters, the polymers were developed by three Stanford professors. Today’s mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are delivered with lipid nanoparticles. The new technology is aimed at organ-selective delivery of mRNA gene therapies, Evonik says.

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