Mikko Turunen | Chief Scientific Officer
RNatives

Mikko Turunen, Chief Scientific Officer, RNatives

Mikko Turunen, PhD, Founder of RNatives and Adjunct Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Eastern Finland, has +28 years of experience in the development of gene therapies. Throughout his career, his research focus has been non-coding RNAs in transcriptional gene regulation. He was the first to show transcriptional gene activation by small RNAs in vivo (2009).

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Use of AI-assisted Discovery Platform for Transcriptional Gene Regulation by Nuclear Small RNAs

  • Small RNAs regulate transcription by epigenetic mechanism in cell nucleus by targeting promoter associated RNAs.
  • Interactions of nuclear RNAs is very complex and RNatives has used AI/ML to pinpoint the most effective RNAs
  • RNatives is developing therapeutic small RNAs for various indications, including Ophthalmology, Metabolic disease, Oncology and Cardiovascular disease
last published: 22/Aug/25 15:25 GMT

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