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MRC and LifeArc awards £8M to TransNAT Consortium
17th January, 2023
The University of Oxford welcomed the news of the award of the NATA Delivery Challenge. The £8m from MRC and LifeArc will support an international research programme involving academic and industry partners with the combined vision of finding new and improved ways of delivering nucleic acids to disease tissue.
Professor Matthew Wood commented: 'This major award gives an outstanding international consortium the opportunity to focus on key scientific challenges in safely and specifically delivering nucleic acid therapeutics to diseased tissues. Our vision is to accelerate development of this field and bring about a transformation in the use of nucleic acid drugs to benefit patients affected by a wide range of rare and common diseases.'