Alnylam Plans Lumasiran Phase III As Market Landscape Gets Competitive
Executive Summary
Alnylam will take on the global development and commercialization of investigational rare disease therapy lumasiran as Sanofi declines to opt-in to its development, and the US biotech prepares to commercialize its first RNAi therapeutic, pencilled in for later this year.
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