Heqet: regenerating heart muscle cells via the Hippo pathway
King’s College spinout is inducing cardiomyocyte regeneration via nanoparticle-delivered miRNA
Turin-based Heqet is using miRNA compounds that transiently modulate the Hippo-YAP pathway to regenerate damaged heart tissue.
Heqet Therapeutics s.r.l. founder Mauro Giacca discovered Hippo pathway-modulating miRNAs while at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) Trieste studying mechanisms of regeneration. ...