BOULDER, Colo. & FRANKFURT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--miRagen Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on improving patients’ lives by developing innovative microRNA (miRNA)-based therapeutics for cardiovascular and muscle disease, and t2cure, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing progenitor cell-based regenerative therapeutics for cardiac or peripheral vascular diseases, announced today that they have entered into a licensing agreement that provides miRagen Therapeutics with exclusive rights to the technology and intellectual property related to the in vivo-use of discoveries made by the University of Frankfurt and licensed by t2cure regarding microRNA 92 (miR-92). miR-92 is a key regulator of neoangiogenesis as part of ischemic disease, which may be relevant to peripheral arterial disease and other cardiovascular disorders. t2cure retains the rights to use modulators of miR-92 for ex-vivo treatment of cellular therapeutics. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.
