Exiqon announced this week that it has achieved several milestones in a collaboration with Tacere Therapeutics, including the completion of a series of customizable assays for the detection of therapeutic shRNAs currently under development through a partnership between Tacere and Pfizer.
As reported by RNAi News early last year, Tacere licensed its preclinical hepatitis C therapy TT-033 to Pfizer worldwide except in Asia, where Oncolys BioPharma has the drug's rights (see RNAi News, 1/10/2008).
According to Exiqon, the assays will be used to "assess critical performance points for the RNAi therapeutic in a preclinical setting."
Specific terms of the arrangement with Tacere were not disclosed.