Dicer­na scores broad, 'rest of liv­er' deal with No­vo Nordisk, bag­ging $225M in cash to hit some 30 tar­gets with RNAi plat­form

Turns out Dicer­na wasn’t done with deals yet af­ter lock­ing in $200 mil­lion up­front from Roche for a he­pati­tis B cock­tail two weeks ago.

No­vo Nordisk has signed on as the lat­est part­ner to its GalXC RNAi plat­form, hand­ing over $175 mil­lion in cash to claim any and all tar­gets of in­ter­est in liv­er-re­lat­ed car­dio-meta­bol­ic dis­eases that are not al­ready re­served in pre­vi­ous pacts. The Dan­ish drug­mak­er — which has sig­naled its in­ter­est to ex­pand con­sid­er­ably be­yond its core di­a­betes fran­chise in­to ar­eas like NASH — is al­so pur­chas­ing $50 mil­lion worth of Dicer­na’s eq­ui­ty at a 25% pre­mi­um of $21.93 per share. More re­search pay­ments and mile­stones ex­tend­ing to the bil­lions are on the line.

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