AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mirna Therapeutics (“Mirna”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Asuragen, Inc., and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Science Park Research Center in Smithville have entered into a collaboration to investigate microRNAs in human prostate cancer. The principal investigators for the study are Dean Tang, M.D., Ph.D, Associate Professor, Division of Carcinogenesis and Adjunct Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas and David Brown, Ph.D, Director of Discovery, from Mirna.
