Shire spins out mR­NA group to RaNA, which is hatch­ing plans to tack­le cys­tic fi­bro­sis in the clin­ic

Over the last few years, the ex­ec­u­tive crew at Shire has on a few rare oc­ca­sions spot­light­ed their work in mR­NA, tout­ing its po­ten­tial for adding to its fore­cast of bil­lions in new rev­enue. A lit­tle more than two years ago, the re­search arm of the Cys­tic Fi­bro­sis Foun­da­tion con­tributed $15 mil­lion to the ven­ture. But now, with their big merg­er with Bax­al­ta still be­ing worked through, Shire is lat­er­al­ing their mR­NA team — more than a dozen staffers and two key pro­grams — to RaNA Ther­a­peu­tics in ex­change for a chunk of eq­ui­ty.

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