Alnylam Pharmaceuticals And Collaborators Publish Pre-Clinical Results With ALN-AS1, An RNAi Therapeutic Targeting Aminolevulinic Acid Synthase-1 (ALAS-1) For The Treatment Of Hepatic Porphyrias, In The Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today the publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of pre-clinical results with RNAi therapeutics targeting aminolevulinic acid synthase-1 (ALAS-1) for the treatment of hepatic porphyrias, including acute intermittent porphyria (AIP). In the paper, titled “RNAi-mediated silencing of hepatic Alas1 effectively prevents and treats the induced acute attacks in acute intermittent porphyria mice,” Alnylam scientists and collaborators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City documented results from pre-clinical models of the human disease showing that RNAi therapeutics targeting ALAS-1 can completely block the abnormal production of toxic intermediates of the heme biosynthesis pathway that cause the symptoms and disease pathology of AIP. This new paper provides proof of concept for an RNAi therapeutic for the treatment of AIP.

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