Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals is a Pasadena, California-based biotechnology and pharmaceuticals company.
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that develops medicines that treat intractable diseases by silencing the genes that cause them. The company was founded in 1989 by R. Bruce Stewart and is headquartered in Pasadena, CA. Specifically, Arrowhead’s therapies utilize gene silencing through triggering the RNA interference mechanism. RNA interference, or RNAi, is a mechanism present in living cells that inhibits the expression of a specific gene, thereby affecting the production of a specific protein.