Community stories and news

  • Exploring why companies partner their technology

    Community news

    Partnerships in our industry are very common as companies look to benefit from knowledge and resource sharing. In this blog we explore why companies, like ProQR, partner with other companies.

    Lenka in the Lab
  • Today marks an expansion of the ProQR and Lilly partnership

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    In September 2021 ProQR announced a global licensing and research collaboration with Lilly. The partnership focuses on developing potential medicines using our Axiomer RNA editing platform technology. Strategic collaborations like this can help to drive the advancement of an early-stage technology, like Axiomer, closer to the clinic.

    Axiomer partnership
  • ProQR Update August 2022

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    Announced today (August 11, 2022), ProQR will focus exclusively on the development of the Axiomer® RNA editing technology platform across multiple therapeutic areas. This comes following feedback from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) related to ProQR’s sepofarsen for Leber Congenital Amaurosis type 10 (LCA10).

    RNA illustration
  • Building an Inclusive ProQR

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    At ProQR we strive to create an inclusive culture where everyone is valued for who they are and individual differences and contributions are recognized and appreciated. Therefore, we decided for this Pride Month June 2022, to visually demonstrate our support and acknowledgment of the LGBTQ+ community by changing our logo to incorporate the pride rainbow flag.

    Rainbow image with text We Wish You A Happy Pride Month!
  • ProQR update and additional sepofarsen Illuminate trial analyses

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    ProQR has announced the completion of an in-depth strategic review designed to deliver on our commitment to advance RNA therapies for diseases with high unmet need. We are also sharing additional analyses of the sepofarsen Illuminate trial.

    ProQR logo on the left. The word update on the right.
  • Rare Disease Day 2022

    Community news

    On behalf of all ProQRians, happy Rare Disease Day 2022. Both within ProQR and outside, we join the community in raising awareness and trying to generate change for people worldwide living with a rare disease, their families, and supporters.

    28 February 2022 is Rare Disease Day. Rare disease day logo on the top right. Portrait of Maartje living with Usher syndrome on the right. #RareDiseaseDay www.rarediseaseday.org
  • Rare Disease Day 2021

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    Even in lockdown we have been working hard as ProQRians to stay connected to the inherited retinal disease community. Rare Disease Day is a unique awareness day due to its global reach and significance.

    A collage of four ProQRians on a purple background. From left to right: Daniel de Boer, Eleni Skandalaki, Andy Bolan and Marko Potman. At the top left is the logo of Rare Disease Day
  • Always excited about RNA therapies

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    He is one of the founders of ProQR, but even long before that Gerard Platenburg was involved in the development of RNA therapies. Even so, after decades of working on them he still gets enthusiastic when talking about RNA.

    A photo of Gerard Platenburg
  • Still going strong / One challenge after another

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    There are currently around 160 people working at ProQR, but that wasn’t always the case. When Hee Lam Chan joined in 2013, she was only employee number six. As a result, she has seen the company grow and develop.

    A photo of Hee Lam Chan