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Regulus Receives Orphan Drug Designation For RG-012, A microRNA Therapeutic For The Treatment Of Alport Syndrome
2014-07-30 10:28:24| drugdiscoveryonline Home Page
Regulus Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: RGLS), a biopharmaceutical company leading the discovery and development of innovative medicines targeting microRNAs, announced today that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to RG-012, a single stranded, chemically modified oligonucleotide that binds to and inhibits the function of microRNA-21 ("miR-21"), as a therapeutic for the treatment of Alport syndrome, a life-threatening genetic kidney disease with no approved therapy
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