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Alnylam & Medison Partner to Market RNAi Products in Israel

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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ALNY - Free Report) entered into an exclusive agreement with Israel’s leading pharmaceuticals partner, Medison Pharma to commercialize its newly approved RNAi therapeutic Onpattro in Israel.

Alnylam makes use of a potentially radical RNAi technology. This technology is a naturally occurring biological pathway within cells for selectively silencing and regulating the expression of specific genes. Since many diseases are caused by the inappropriate activity of specific genes, the ability to make the genes silent selectively through RNAi holds the potential to change the way diseases are treated.

Share price of Alnylam has declined 36.6% in the past year compared with the industry’s decline of 20.2%.

We remind investors that Onpattro was approved in the United States and Europe in August 2018 for the treatment of hereditary transthyretin-mediated (hATTR) amyloidosis in adults. Onpattro is the first and only FDA-approved RNAi therapeutic for this indication and not approved for use in Israel. The agreement also includes Alnylam’s investigational late-stage RNAi therapeutics — givosiran, being developed for the treatment of acute hepatic porphyria (AHP), and lumasiran, which is being developed for the treatment of Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1 (PH1). Both givosiran and lumasiran have not been approved by any regulatory authority yet.

The agreement with Medison is in sync with the company’s strategy to globally expand so that it can make treatments of rare diseases accessible to patients across the globe. Medison has been successful at commercializing orphan products. The company has an infrastructure that is uniquely suited to support patients suffering from rare diseases in Israel. Per the agreement, Medison will have access to Alnylam’s Onpattro and other candidates that it can make available to physicians and patients in Israel.

Alnylam’s expertise in RNAi therapeutics and broad intellectual property estate has allowed the company to enter into collaborations with leading pharmaceutical and life sciences companies like Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Novartis (NVS - Free Report) , Roche, Takeda, Merck (MRK - Free Report) The Medicines Company and Sanofi’s (SNY - Free Report) specialty care global business unit, Genzyme, among others.

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Alnylam currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.

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