Moderna, AstraZeneca Partnering To Develop an ’mRNA Therapeutic’ For Heart Disease

Moderna, AstraZeneca Partnering To Develop an ’mRNA Therapeutic’ For Heart Disease
A file image of Indian scientists working in a laboratory for British Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca PLC in Bangalore. Indranil Mukherjee/AFP via Getty Images
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Drugmakers Moderna and AstraZeneca are partnering up to develop a “mRNA therapeutic” to treat life-threatening cardiovascular disease such as heart failure.

“We are collaborating with @AstraZeneca on an mRNA therapeutic (AZD8601) that encodes for VEGF-A to promote recovery of cardiac function through tissue regeneration,” Moderna said in a Twitter post Thursday.
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