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.

Subscribe for alerts on new companies featured on Startups.Bio

MxT Biotech
MxT Biotech, a Korea University spin-out, aims to transform cancer immunotherapy, cellular engineering and genome editing with its patented non-viral genome editing technology. The Hydroporator™ is a non-viral microfluidic platform …
Vilya
Vilya is a spin-out of the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design (IPD), with a platform to design membrane-permeable peptides with high structural accuracy, opening up a new class …
VentureRadar’s Top 100 Emerging Biotech Start-ups Report
Biotechnology is in the midst of a exciting era of innovation, with an ever-expanding toolbox of modalities and approaches spawning development of exciting new vaccines, medicines and therapies. VentureRadar's Top …
CorriXR Therapeutics
CorriXR Therapeutics is an oncology-focused biotherapeutics developing a novel gene editing platform technology. CorriXR has developed an innovative CRISPR/Cas molecule that disables the genome of a tumor cell but not …

View all recently featured startups

Tags: