Therorna

Therorna was founded in China in 2021, leveraging its proprietary circular RNA technology platform to develop next-generation vaccines and innovative therapies.

Compared with linear RNA, circular RNA (circRNA) offers benefits in expression, stability, immunogenicity, and production. Thanks to its structure, circRNA as a tool for protein expression has been proven to maintain a relatively stable protein expression level in vivo for a longer time, which is expected to expand the application scenarios of RNA therapy.

Therorna raised Series A funding in June 2022 to help accelerate the development of a new broad-spectrum COVID-19 vaccine and the discovery of additional novel therapies for a variety of diseases. The company says it has already established a strong pipeline of novel prophylactic and therapeutic drugs aiming to address high unmet medical needs.

The company’s founder Wensheng Wei is a Professor at Peking University and previously also founded genome editing company EdiGene.

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