Did you know that chemical modifications on tRNAs play a key role in their structure, function, and stability? Chemically modified tRNAs have not previously been produced successfully at a scale required for preclinical development and clinical trials. To advance our first tRNA medicines to the clinic, Alltrna has pioneered the chemical synthesis of modified tRNA oligonucleotides. Alltrna’s Chief Technology Officer William Kiesman explains about manufacturing tRNAs and more in this BioProcess International interview: https://lnkd.in/dmKfkQDX #tRNA #RNA #tRNAmedicines #manufacturing #rarediseases #geneticmedicines
Alltrna
Biotechnology Research
Cambridge, Massachusetts 7,007 followers
The world’s first transfer RNA (tRNA) platform company. We are unlocking the vast therapeutic potential within #tRNA.
About us
Alltrna is the first transfer RNA (tRNA) platform company, and our mission is to unlock tRNA biology and pioneer tRNA therapeutics to regulate the protein universe and resolve disease. Founded at Flagship Labs in 2018, Alltrna has mapped tRNA biology to systematically design tRNA medicines and encode a completely new, unifying approach to treating both rare and common human diseases driven by shared genetic mutations. Alltrna’s platform combines internal expertise and proprietary machine learning tools to unlock the entire tRNA biology space. We have an unprecedented opportunity to advance a single tRNA medicine to restore disrupted protein production, regardless of target, for thousands of diseases with the same underlying genetic mutation.
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- Biotechnology Research
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- 11-50 employees
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Privately Held
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- 2018
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Thank you to Tom DiLenge and all the speakers for driving crucial conversations that inspire change. At Alltrna, we are committed to transforming medicine, boldly building a new future for patients and accelerating drug development for rare diseases. #tRNAmedicines #tRNA #rarediseases #raredisease #StopCodonDisease #geneticmedicines
Yesterday’s NORD Summit on Rare Disease Innovation was a great success. I had the pleasure of discussing Flagship's "blue sky" thinking about how to transform rare disease innovation by using platform-based approaches that can target hundreds, and potentially even thousands, of distinct rare genetic disaeses with a single genetic medicine -- such as the first-of-its-kind tRNA platform being developed by Flagship company Alltrna. Thanks to my fellow panelists and moderator for the engaging discussion!
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How can we accelerate drug development and balance risk when a patient’s time is short? Alltrna CEO Michelle Werner was one of three parents who took the stage at the #STATSummit to discuss building biotech companies and changing drug development paradigms in a race against time to bring new treatments for #rarediseases that affect their children. Read the STAT story: https://lnkd.in/gt99m5ND
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Not all RNAs are created equal. tRNAs have some incredible therapeutic potential, but also unique challenges in terms of sequencing and chemical synthesis. In this Q&A with Drug Discovery World, Caroline Köhrer, Alltrna's Senior Vice President of Discovery Platform, breaks down the biology and how Alltrna is harnessing it to create tRNA therapeutics that can unify the treatment of diseases based on shared genetic mutations and accelerate rare disease drug development for millions. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/egAY6_nC #RNA #tRNAmedicines #tRNAbiology #rarediseases #geneticmedicines #programmablemedicines #AI #machinelearning #StopCodonDisease
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📸 Meet Caffrey and his new service dog and best friend, Ticket 🐕🦺. They came by Alltrna today to spend time with the team and celebrate #NationalServiceDogMonth! Caffrey, the son of our CEO, lives with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and his service dog helps him live more confidently and independently. We are proud to support accessibility, and Alltrna is always a welcoming space for service dogs. It was an honor to welcome Caffrey and Ticket and learn from them!
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What exactly are 'nonsense mutations' and premature stop codons, and how could tRNA hold the key to treating thousands of #rarediseases caused by these genetic changes? Alltrna’s CEO Michelle Werner talks to Larry Luxner of Rare Disease Advisor about how these mutations are found across all genetic diseases, the promise of tRNA medicines, and her personal connection to Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Read the article and listen to the interview here: https://lnkd.in/gsDAnnd8 #tRNA #RNA #tRNAmedicines #tRNAbiology #rarediseases #raredisease #StopCodonDisease #geneticmedicines #programmablemedicines #Duchenne #musculardystrophy
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Our CEO Michelle Werner will be speaking at the annual #STATSummit in #Boston on October 17, 2024, about her personal and professional quest to transform and accelerate rare disease drug development. See the agenda from STAT here: https://lnkd.in/dgCtmqXM
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We are beyond proud to share that our CEO, Michelle Werner, has been named to Endpoints News’ annual 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮 list! 🌟 Her leadership inspires us everyday at Alltrna to push the boundaries of innovation in tRNA therapeutics and give it our all to do more for patients. Congratulations, Michelle, on this well-deserved recognition! See more at Endpoints News: https://lnkd.in/g9Wp3bxv #WomenInBiopharma #tRNAmedicines #tRNA #rarediseases #raredisease #StopCodonDisease #geneticmedicines #programmablemedicines #AI #machinelearning
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Alltrna’s CEO Michelle Werner will be speaking at the Axiom Crossroads Summit on October 10, 2024 at MassBio in a fireside chat with Hafiz Sikder of Axiom Healthcare Strategies. Michelle will be discussing strategies, including basket clinical trials, that have the potential to accelerate #raredisease #drugdevelopment. See more here: https://lnkd.in/gMiXTg2d #tRNA #tRNAmedicines
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Could a mutation-specific, disease-agnostic approach transform drug development for thousands of patients without disease-modifying therapies? And what needs to be done to bring basket clinical trials that have been increasingly used to accelerate drug development in oncology into the rare disease space? Alltrna CEO Michelle Werner and SVP of Discovery Platform Caroline Köhrer recently sat down with Ellen Capon of Drug Target Review to talk about tRNA and how it can be leveraged to scale the development of genetic medicines. 🎧 To learn more, listen to the this short 15-minute podcast: https://lnkd.in/gCHp-Jc2 #InternationalPodcastDay #tRNA #RNA #tRNAmedicines #tRNAbiology #rarediseases #geneticmedicines #programmablemedicines #StopCodonDisease