GENESIS Pharma Expands Strategic Commercial Partnership with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals for RNAi Therapeutics to the Nordic Region
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The expanded partnership adds
Denmark ,Finland ,Norway andSweden to GENESIS Pharma’s existing network of thirteen Southeast European markets. - It grants rights for the commercialization of Alnylam’s RNAi therapeutics for serious cardiomyopathy conditions and rare genetic diseases.
The partnership, established in 2019 for
About RNAi
RNAi (RNA interference) is a natural cellular process of gene silencing that represents one of the most promising and rapidly advancing frontiers in biology and drug development today.1 Its discovery has been heralded as “a major scientific breakthrough that happens once every decade or so,” and was recognized with the award of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.2 By harnessing the natural biological process of RNAi occurring in our cells, a new class of medicines known as RNAi therapeutics is now a reality. Small interfering RNA (siRNA), the molecules that mediate RNAi and comprise Alnylam’s RNAi therapeutic platform, function upstream of today’s medicines by potently silencing messenger RNA (mRNA) – the genetic precursors – that encode for disease-causing or disease pathway proteins, thus preventing them from being made.1 This is a revolutionary approach with the potential to transform the care of patients with genetic and other diseases.
About GENESIS Pharma
GENESIS Pharma is a European biopharma company focused on the commercialization of innovative biopharmaceutical products targeting severe and rare diseases, currently covering 24 countries in Europe. Established in 1997, GENESIS Pharma was among the first pharmaceutical companies in the region to specialize in the marketing, sales and distribution of biopharmaceutical products. GENESIS Pharma maintains a strong portfolio in therapeutic areas with high unmet medical need through long standing strategic alliances with some of the leading global biopharma companies. For more information, please visit www.genesispharma.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
REFERENCES
1 Elbashir SM, Harborth J, Lendeckel W, et al. Nature. 2001;411(6836):494-498.
2 Zamore P. Cell. 2006;127(5):1083-1086.
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