Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Medtronic, Inc., and CHDI Foundation Form Collaboration to Advance RNAi Therapeutics for the Treatment of Huntington's Disease

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & MINNEAPOLIS & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT), and CHDI Foundation, Inc., announced today that they have formed a collaboration to advance ALN-HTT, a novel drug-device combination for the treatment of Huntington’s disease. ALN-HTT consists of an RNAi therapeutic targeting huntingtin, the gene responsible for Huntington’s disease, that is being developed for delivery to the central nervous system (CNS) using an implantable infusion system developed by Medtronic. CHDI is a not-for-profit virtual biotech company that is exclusively dedicated to rapidly discovering and developing therapies that slow the progression of Huntington’s disease.

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