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Written to endure

Synthetic chemistry and
AI meet to engineer xRNA

Extended-release RNA medicines that turn transient treatments into durable therapies for chronic disease.

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Vision
We write longevity into RNA and
give it one thing it lacked - time.
The xRNA edge

Nature gave RNA four letters. We give it many more.

These extra characters do more than widen the alphabet - they let RNA keep expressing protein for far longer. Same biological message; a far more lasting way to translate it.

mRNA

Four natural letters

Expression measured in days

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xRNA

An expanded alphabet

Expression measured in months

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Months, not days

Site-specific chemistry shields the molecule from degradation, extending protein expression from days to sustained weeks and months.

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Low immunogenicity by design

Precise positional engineering is designed to lower innate immune sensing - for a clean safety profile and the repeat dosing chronic care requires.

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Precise to the letter

Each modification sits exactly where it earns its keep - single-position control.

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Made to scale

High-yield, scalable synthesis from clinically proven chemistries - a manufacturable product with attractive COGS.

Therapeutics

Multifactorial disease needs more than one lever

The hardest chronic diseases rarely come from a single cause. They emerge from interlocking biological networks - modulate one node and the network simply reroutes around it, which is why single-target therapies so often hit a ceiling.

xRNA is built for exactly this

A programmable combination of payloads, each directed at an independent driver and produced in a coordinated, synchronized way - with the stoichiometry tuned to the biology.

Cardiometabolic is just the start

Cardiometabolic disease is our first focus, a fast-growing frontier within one of medicine's largest markets. The first wave of therapies captured value at surface-level targets, while the underlying biology, the real driver, goes largely unaddressed and keeps progressing.

Beyond cardiometabolic, the same long-acting, multi-pathway approach applies to any chronic disease driven by more than one cause.

~$2T
Projected cardiometabolic market by 2035
~24%
Compound annual growth - among the fastest in medicine.
& beyond
Cardiometabolic is the entry point; the same approach extends to other complex chronic diseases.
Platform

Designed by deep learning,
built by chemistry, validated in-vivo.

Because xRNA is built through a hybrid of enzymatic assembly and chemical synthesis, it isn't bound to nature's four letters.

A deep-learning engine maps a vast library of chemical modifications and co-optimizes the whole molecule - cap, UTRs, coding sequence and tail - for the specific demands of each payload.

AI design

Design across an expanded chemical space

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A model trained on non-natural building blocks predicts the structure–activity relationships traditional four-letter models can't perceive — designing the molecule as a whole rather than swapping interchangeable blocks.

Chemistry

Position-specific modification

Chemical Letters

We place each modification exactly where it earns its keep — single-letter control that tunes stability and the immune signal, drawn from a library of clinically proven chemistries.

The TERÅ engine

A closed loop that gets smarter each cycle

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Design

AI-designed libraries output candidate fragments across the expanded chemical space.

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2

Build

Proprietary combinatorial assembly builds many unique constructs in tandem.

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3

Measure

Rapid, high-throughput screens quantify expression and durability across many candidates at once.

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4

Learn

Results retrain the model, sharpening the next design round.

Team

Built by people who've done it before

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Adi Gilboa-Geffen
Adi Gilboa-Geffen
CEO
Adi Naamati
Adi Naamati
Associate Principal Scientist
Alex Dobre
Alex Dobre
In-vivo Scientist I
Anaïs Depaix
Anaïs Depaix
Associate Principal Scientist
André Xavier
André Xavier
Associate Scientist
Arun Tanpure
Arun Tanpure
Senior Director of Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Filipa Pereira Lopes
Filipa Pereira Lopes
In-vivo Senior Scientist II
Freddy Weaver
Freddy Weaver
Scientist I
Ilaria Falciatori
Ilaria Falciatori
Associate Principal Scientist
Inês Tomás
Inês Tomás
Scientist III
Isabel Cormack
Isabel Cormack
Associate Scientist
Jason Howe
Jason Howe
Senior Scientist I
Laura Butler
Laura Butler
Site Operations Manager
Miri Shiradski
Miri Shiradski
Associate Scientist
Ohad Yogev
Ohad Yogev
VP of Discovery
Rohan Kumbhare
Rohan Kumbhare
Scientist II
Shaul Ilan
Shaul Ilan
COO, Co-founder
Siobhan O'Leary
Siobhan O'Leary
Scientist I
Yaniv Erlich
Yaniv Erlich
Co-founder, Board Chairman
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News

Press release coming soon, stay tuned

Shaul Ilan
July 1, 2026

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