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Capella—the Online Voice of Progress in RNAi

Welcome to Capella, Alnylam’s destination for updates on our work translating the breakthrough discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) into an innovative new class of medicines. We’ve been pioneering RNAi therapeutics since 2002 and are excited to share our ongoing scientific progress.

We presented new results from the APOLLO Phase 3 study of patisiran, an investigational RNAi therapeutic for the treatment of hereditary ATTR (hATTR) amyloidosis, at the International Congress on Neuromuscular Diseases (ICNMD), held July 6-10, 2018 in Vienna, Austria.

Obici et al. – “APOLLO Phase 3 Study: Impact of Baseline Neuropathy Severity on Response to Patisiran”

Coelho et al. – “Transthyretin Reduction with Patisiran in the APOLLO Phase 3 Study”

Mauermann et al. – “Impact of Patisiran on Autonomic Neuropathy in Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis Patients”

Goel et al. – “Population Pharmacokinetics (PK) of Patisiran in Healthy Volunteers and hATTR Patients”

Zhang et al. – “Pharmacokinetics of Patisiran in Patients with Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis”

We are hosting a series of online “RNAi Roundtables” from June through September, at which Alnylam scientists, clinical collaborators, and patients or patient advocates review recent progress in many of the Company’s late-stage pipeline programs and discuss the related disease areas.

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We presented additional results from the APOLLO Phase 3 study of patisiran, an investigational RNAi therapeutic for the treatment of hereditary ATTR (hATTR) amyloidosis, at the 4th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), held June 16-19, 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Coelho et al. – “Impact of Prior TTR Stabilizer Use in Patients with Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis in the APOLLO Phase 3 Study of Patisiran”

Obici et al. – “Impact of Patisiran, an Investigational RNAi Therapeutic, on Nutritional Status in Patients with Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis”

Coelho et al. – “Outcomes of Patients with Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis with Early Onset V30M versus All Other Mutations in APOLLO, a Phase 3 Study of Patisiran”

Goel et al. – “Population Pharmacokinetic (PK)/Pharmacodynamic (PD) Model of Serum Transthyretin (TTR) Following Patisiran-LNP Administration in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Hereditary TTR-Mediated (hATTR) Amyloidosis with Polyneuropathy”

Zhang et al. – “Patisiran-LNP Pharmacokinetics (PK), Pharmacodynamics (PD), and Exposure-Response (E-R) Relationship in Patients with Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated (hATTR) Amyloidosis with Polyneuropathy”

Obici et al. – “Impact of Patisiran on Norfolk Quality of Life Questionnaire Diabetic Neuropathy (QOL-DN) in Patients with Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis: Results from the Phase 3 APOLLO Study”

We presented new results from the APOLLO Phase 3 study of patisiran, an investigational RNAi therapeutic for the treatment of hereditary ATTR (hATTR) amyloidosis, at the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure 2018 Congress, held May 26-29, 2018 in Vienna, Austria.

Slama et al. – “Analysis of NT-proBNP Baseline Levels in APOLLO as a Predictor of Survival in Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated (hATTR) Amyloidosis”

Merlini et al. – “Impact of Patisiran on Norfolk Quality of Life Questionairre Diabetic Neuropathy in Patients with Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis: Results from the Cardiac Subpopulation in the Phase 3 APOLLO Study”

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One of the main features of our ESC GalNAc-siRNA conjugates platform is potent and durable target knockdown in the liver sustained for several months in humans. In some cases, RNAi therapeutics may benefit from a technology that enables reversal of target mRNA knockdown and provides finer control over pharmacology, a desired attribute for therapeutic entities. REVERSIRTM molecules are GalNAc-conjugated, short, single-stranded, high affinity oligonucleotide constructs designed to recognize and bind to the complementary, RISC-bound antisense strand of siRNAs, thereby leading to rapid and complete reversal of RNAi-mediated target gene silencing activity in vivo.

Read article in Nature Biotech

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