The PC­SK9 of NASH? Re­gen­eron and Al­ny­lam join forces to tack­le a promis­ing tar­get for se­vere liv­er dis­eases

The Re­gen­eron Ge­net­ics Cen­ter $REGN rou­tine­ly sifts through a moun­tain of se­quenc­ing da­ta. And every now and then, the re­searchers there will pan out a glit­ter­ing find­ing that looks like it could rank right up there with PC­SK9.

Here’s one.

This evening, in a study pub­lished in the New Eng­land Jour­nal of Med­i­cine, they are point­ing to one such dis­cov­ery that they be­lieve has some big im­pli­ca­tions for se­vere liv­er dis­eases, in­clud­ing the Holy Grail of NASH. And with­out a log­i­cal an­ti­body strat­e­gy to put in­to play — giv­en an in­tra­cel­lu­lar tar­get in the spot­light — they’ve en­list­ed an ex­pe­ri­enced crew at Al­ny­lam to bring their RNAi gene si­lenc­ing plat­form in­to the game to find the most ef­fi­cient way to pro­vide the key to coun­ter­ing a raft of ail­ments.

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