ExploRNA Therapeutics received an $813,578 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The money will support the company’s activities for 14 months.

– We do not assume the development of a vaccine against a specific disease. Our goal is to show that the use of our technology brings real benefits in the creation of vaccines based on mRNA technology.that is, in the prevention of the development of infectious diseases, as well as in the treatment of cancer – said Jacek Jemielity, president of ExploRNA Therapeutics and professor at the University of Warsaw, quoted by the portal mamstartup.pl .

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ExploRNA therapeutics is a company of the University of Warsaw. It was founded in 2019 by Prof. Jacek Jemielity, dr hab. Joanna Kowalska and Marek Baranowski in collaboration with scientists from the Medical University of Warsaw: prof. Jakub Gołąb and prof. Dominique Nowis.

In 2020, Michał Sołowow invested in the company – the owner of i.a. Synthosa, Barlinek and Cersanit – through its Black Forest SICAV-SIF fund. “Black Forest then bought 20% of the shares of ExploRNA Therapeutics (with a target value of 45% of the shares)” – indicates mamstartup.pl.

Foundation founded by Bill Gates – co-founder of Microsoft Corp. – and his ex-wife Melinda French Gates is as part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a charitable project carried out in cooperation between governments and international organizations. Bill Gatesaccording to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he is currently the 4th richest man in the world with an estimated fortune of $109 billion. Since 1995, he has topped Forbes magazine’s list of the richest people in the world. He was top of the list for many years.