Moderna and Chiesi Group Establish Collaboration to Discover and Develop mRNA Therapeutics for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH)

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Sep 17, 2020
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Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients and Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A., an international research-focused healthcare group (Chiesi Group), today announced a collaboration aimed at the discovery and development of mRNA therapeutics for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a rare disease with an incidence of 2-5 per million adults1. PAH is a progressive disorder characterized by high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs with concomitant right heart failure2. There is an unmet medical need for novel treatments that could delay, or reverse, the disease progression in patients.