Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ALNY, the leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today that it will webcast its upcoming R&D Day, including a live video stream, on the Investors section of the company's website, www.alnylam.com, on the morning of December 16, 2016.
Alnylam management and leading physicians will discuss development candidates from the company's RNAi therapeutics pipeline. The event will include presentations from the following guest speakers:
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Ole Suhr, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Physician and Gastroenterologist at the Department of Medicine, and Head of the Amyloid team at the Umeå University Hospital
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Robert Desnick, M.D., Ph.D.
Dean for Genetic & Genomic Medicine, Professor and Chair Emeritus at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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John Pasi, MB, ChB, Ph.D., FRCP, FRCPath, FRCPCH
Professor of Haemostasis and Thrombosis and Consultant Haematologist at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London
The meeting will be held on Friday, December 16, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET at the Westin New York at Times Square in New York City. A replay will be available on the Alnylam website within 48 hours after the event.
About Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Alnylam is a biopharmaceutical
company developing novel therapeutics based on RNA interference, or
RNAi. The company is leading the translation of RNAi as a new class of
innovative medicines. Alnylam's pipeline of investigational RNAi
therapeutics is focused in 3 Strategic Therapeutic Areas (STArs):
Genetic Medicines, with a broad pipeline of RNAi therapeutics for the
treatment of rare diseases; Cardio-Metabolic Disease, with a pipeline of
RNAi therapeutics toward genetically validated, liver-expressed disease
targets for unmet needs in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases; and
Hepatic Infectious Disease, with a pipeline of RNAi therapeutics that
address the major global health challenges of hepatic infectious
diseases. In early 2015, Alnylam launched its "Alnylam 2020" guidance
for the advancement and commercialization of RNAi therapeutics as a
whole new class of innovative medicines. Specifically, by the end of
2020, Alnylam expects to achieve a company profile with 3 marketed
products, 10 RNAi therapeutic clinical programs – including 4 in late
stages of development – across its 3 STArs. The company's demonstrated
commitment to RNAi therapeutics has enabled it to form major alliances
with leading companies including Merck, Medtronic, Novartis, Biogen,
Roche, Takeda, Kyowa Hakko Kirin, Cubist, GlaxoSmithKline, Ascletis,
Monsanto, The Medicines Company, and Sanofi Genzyme. In addition,
Alnylam holds an equity position in Regulus Therapeutics Inc., a company
focused on discovery, development, and commercialization of microRNA
therapeutics. Alnylam scientists and collaborators have published their
research on RNAi therapeutics in over 200 peer-reviewed papers,
including many in the world's top scientific journals such as Nature,
Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Cell, New England Journal of
Medicine, and The Lancet. Founded in 2002, Alnylam maintains
headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information about
Alnylam's pipeline of investigational RNAi therapeutics, please visit www.alnylam.com.
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