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Avidity Biosciences

www.aviditybiosciences.com

 
Avidity Biosciences, Inc.`s mission is to profoundly improve people`s lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics - Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs™). Avidity`s proprietary AOCs are designed to combine the specificity of monoclonal antibodies with the precision of oligonucleotide therapies to target the root cause of diseases previously untreatable with RNA therapeutics. Avidity`s advancing and expanding pipeline has three programs in clinical development. AOC 1001 is designed to treat people with myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) and is currently in Phase 1/2 development with the ongoing MARINA™ and MARINA-OLE™ trials. AOC 1020 is designed to treat people living with ...
  • Number of Employees: 100-250
  • Annual Revenue: $10-50 Million

Executives

Name Title Contact Details
Michael Flanagan
Chief Technology Officer Profile
Michael Flanagan
Chief Scientific and Technical Officer Profile
Joseph Baroldi
Chief Operating Officer Profile

Funding

Avidity Biosciences raised $16M on 10/17/2018
Avidity Biosciences raised $15M on 04/22/2019
Avidity Biosciences raised $100M on 11/13/2019

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