No­var­tis is 'all in' on siR­NA, ink­ing a new col­lab­o­ra­tion with Al­ny­lam to de­vel­op al­ter­na­tive to liv­er trans­plants

Al­ny­lam was a few years ahead in the small in­ter­fer­ing RNA (siR­NA) space when No­var­tis jumped on the band­wag­on in ear­ly 2020, li­cens­ing the com­pa­ny’s cho­les­terol-low­er­ing drug Leqvio through its buy­out of The Med­i­cines Com­pa­ny. Less than a month af­ter se­cur­ing an ap­proval, the phar­ma gi­ant wants more where that came from.

No­var­tis is join­ing forces with Al­ny­lam once again for the dis­cov­ery and de­vel­op­ment of a re­gen­er­a­tive siR­NA-based ther­a­py to treat end-stage liv­er dis­ease, the com­pa­nies an­nounced on Thurs­day.

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