ProQR Highlights Upcoming Presentation at 20th Annual Meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society

LEIDEN, Netherlands & CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ProQR Therapeutics NV (Nasdaq: PRQR) (ProQR), a company dedicated to changing lives through transformative RNA therapies, today announced it will present preclinical data for its proprietary Axiomer™ RNA editing technology platform and its AX-0810 pipeline program for cholestatic diseases targeting NTCP at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society, October 6-9, 2024, in Montreal, QC, Canada.

Gerard Platenburg, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at ProQR, will present on Tuesday, October 8 at 10:15 am ET (Session IV: DNA/RNA Editing).

Oral presentation:
“Oligonucleotide guided RNA editing of SLC10A1 (NTCP) as a therapeutic approach to lower bile acid re-uptake in cholestatic diseases”

Following OTS, the slide deck will be available via ProQR’s website in the Presentations and Publications section.

About Axiomer™

ProQR is pioneering a next-generation RNA base editing technology called Axiomer™, which could potentially yield a new class of medicines for diverse types of diseases. Axiomer “Editing Oligonucleotides”, or EONs, mediate single nucleotide changes to RNA in a highly specific and targeted way using molecular machinery that is present in human cells called ADAR (Adenosine Deaminase Acting on RNA). Axiomer EONs are designed to recruit and direct endogenously expressed ADARs to change an Adenosine (A) to an Inosine (I) in the RNA – an Inosine is translated as a Guanosine (G) – correcting an RNA with a disease-causing mutation back to a normal (wild type) RNA, modulating protein expression, or altering a protein so that it will have a new function that helps prevent or treat disease.

About ProQR

ProQR Therapeutics is dedicated to changing lives through the creation of transformative RNA therapies. ProQR is pioneering a next-generation RNA technology called Axiomer™, which uses a cell’s own editing machinery called ADAR to make specific single nucleotide edits in RNA to reverse a mutation or modulate protein expression and could potentially yield a new class of medicines for both rare and prevalent diseases with unmet need. Based on our unique proprietary RNA repair platform technologies we are growing our pipeline with patients and loved ones in mind.

Learn more about ProQR at www.proqr.com.