Fitusiran progress should have 'significant financial effect' on Silence, company claims

10 July 2017

US RNAi therapeutics company Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ALNY) last week announced that, along with Sanofi Genzyme, it was starting a Phase III program investigating the use of fitusiran in patients with hemophilia A and B with or without inhibitors.

This is a milestone not only for Alnylam and the biotech unit of French pharma major Sanofi (Euronext: SAN), but also for Silence Therapeutics (AIM:SLN), UK novel RNA therapeutics specialist, according to the company itself.

Silence last week referenced fitusiran within a list of Alnylam products that are being included within a claim issued in the UK courts relating to the company’s entitlement to supplementary protection certificates that extend European patent protection on those products.

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