Black­stone fi­nal­izes R&D pact with Al­ny­lam as part of ear­li­er $2 bil­lion in­vest­ment

Back in April, Black­stone an­nounced a mas­sive, multi­bil­lion dol­lar in­vest­ment in Al­ny­lam Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, but not all the R&D de­tails were fi­nal­ized. On Mon­day, we got a glimpse at how some of those de­tails end­ed up look­ing.

The new­ly-ce­ment­ed R&D agree­ment calls for $150 mil­lion to be paid to Al­ny­lam for the de­vel­op­ment of two pipeline prod­ucts, vutrisir­an and ALN-AGT. $70 mil­lion will go to­ward sup­port­ing Phase III vutrisir­an tri­als in AT­TR amy­loi­do­sis-re­lat­ed car­diomy­opa­thy, while the oth­er $80 mil­lion will ad­vance Phase II and III stud­ies for ALN-AGT in hy­per­ten­sion ther­a­py.

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