ALNYLAM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (ALNY) Business
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ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Overview
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (also referred to as Alnylam, the Company, we, our or us) is a global commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics based on ribonucleic acid interference, or RNAi. RNAi is a naturally occurring biological pathway within cells for sequence-specific silencing and regulation of gene expression. By harnessing the RNAi pathway, we have pioneered a new class of innovative medicines, known as RNAi therapeutics. RNAi therapeutics are comprised of small interfering RNA, or siRNA, that function upstream of conventional medicines by potently silencing messenger RNA, or mRNA, that encode for proteins implicated in the cause or pathway of disease, thus preventing them from being made. We believe this is a revolutionary approach with the potential to transform the care of patients across a broad range of disease areas and indications. To date, our efforts to advance this revolutionary approach have yielded the approval of six first-in-class RNAi-based medicines: AMVUTTRA® (vutrisiran), ONPATTRO® (patisiran), GIVLAARI® (givosiran), OXLUMO® (lumasiran), Leqvio® (inclisiran) and Qfitlia® (fitusiran).
Our research and development strategy is to target genetically validated genes that have been implicated in the cause or pathway of human disease. We utilize a N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) conjugate approach or lipid nanoparticle (LNP) to enable hepatic delivery of siRNAs. For delivery to the central nervous system, or CNS, and the eye (ocular delivery), we are utilizing an alternative conjugate approach based on a hexadecyl (C16) moiety as a lipophilic ligand. We are also advancing approaches for heart, skeletal muscle and adipose tissue delivery of siRNAs. Our focus is on clinical indications where there is a high unmet need, a genetically validated target, early biomarkers for the assessment of clinical activity in Phase 1 clinical trials, and a definable path for drug development, regulatory approval, patient access and commercialization.
In early 2026, we launched our Alnylam 2030 strategy to drive the Company’s next era of growth and patient impact. Specifically, we aspire to achieve the following by the end of 2030:
•Global TTR Leadership: Build a Durable TTR Franchise
•Lead the market in TTR revenue by 2030 and cumulatively across the five-year period
•Launch best-in-class, next-generation silencer nucresiran in ATTR amyloidosis with polyneuropathy by 2028 and cardiomyopathy by 2030
•Growth Through Sustainable Innovation: Deliver Therapies that Prevent, Halt, or Reverse Disease
•Deliver 2+ new transformative medicines beyond TTR with blockbuster potential
•Expand to 10 tissue types and 40 clinical programs
•Accelerate organic innovation and access select external innovation by reinvesting ~30% of revenues in non-GAAP R&D
•Scale with Discipline & Agility: Deliver Exceptional Financial Results
•Achieve 25%+ total revenue growth compound annual growth rate through year-end 2030
•Deliver sustained, profitable growth with ~30% non-GAAP operating margin
We currently have six marketed products, including two products that are commercialized by collaborators, and more than 20 clinical programs, including several in late-stage development.
AMVUTTRA is approved in the United States, or U.S., for the treatment of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis, or hATTR amyloidosis, with polyneuropathy in adults, in the European Union, or EU, and the United Kingdom, or UK, for the treatment of hATTR amyloidosis in adult patients with stage 1 or stage 2 polyneuropathy, in Japan for the treatment of transthyretin, or TTR, type familial amyloidosis with polyneuropathy, and in multiple additional countries. In March 2025, the United States Food and Drug Administration, or the FDA, approved our supplemental New Drug Application, or sNDA, for AMVUTTRA for the treatment of the cardiomyopathy of wild-type or hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis in adults to reduce cardiovascular mortality, cardiovascular hospitalizations and urgent heart failure visits. In June 2025, the European Commission, or EC, granted approval of AMVUTTRA for the treatment of wild-type or hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis in adult patients with cardiomyopathy, following a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency, or EMA, AMVUTTRA has also been approved by the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency, or ANVISA, the Japanese Health Authority, or PMDA, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, or MHRA, and Health Canada for the treatment of ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy. Regulatory reviews continue in other territories.
ONPATTRO is approved in the U.S. for the treatment of the polyneuropathy of hATTR amyloidosis in adults and has also been approved in the European Union, or EU, for the treatment of hATTR amyloidosis in adult patients with stage 1 or stage 2
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polyneuropathy, in Japan for the treatment of TTR-type familial amyloidosis with polyneuropathy, and in multiple additional countries. In February 2025, ONPATTRO received regulatory approval from ANVISA in Brazil for the treatment of ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy.
GIVLAARI is approved in the U.S. for the treatment of adults with acute hepatic porphyria, or AHP, in the EU for the treatment of AHP in adults and adolescents aged 12 years and older, and in several other countries. Regulatory filings for givosiran (the generic name of GIVLAARI) in additional territories are pending or planned during 2026 and beyond.
OXLUMO is approved in the U.S. for the treatment of primary hyperoxaluria type 1, or PH1, to lower urinary and plasma oxalate levels in pediatric and adult patients, and in the EU and the UK for the treatment of PH1 in all age groups. OXLUMO has also been approved in several other countries and regulatory filings for lumasiran (the generic name of OXLUMO) in additional territories are pending or planned during 2026 and beyond.
Leqvio (inclisiran) is being developed and commercialized by our collaborator Novartis AG, or Novartis, and has received marketing authorization from the European Commission, or EC, for the treatment of adults with hypercholesterolemia or mixed dyslipidemia and from the FDA as an adjunct to diet and maximally tolerated statin therapy for the treatment of adults with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, or HeFH, or clinical atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, or ASCVD, who require additional lowering of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, or LDL-C. In July 2023, the FDA approved an expanded indication for Leqvio to include treatment of adults with high LDL-C and who are at increased risk of heart disease. In July 2025, based on robust LDL-C lowering data for PCSK9-targeting therapies, the FDA approved a label update for Leqvio enabling its use as monotherapy along with diet and exercise to reduce LDL-C in adults with hypercholesterolemia. Leqvio has also been approved in China and Japan, and as of the end of December 2025, Leqvio is registered in 108 countries worldwide and is commercially available in 89 countries.
Qfitlia (fitusiran) is being commercialized by our collaborator, Genzyme Corporation, a Sanofi Company, or Sanofi, and was approved by the FDA in March 2025 for routine prophylaxis to prevent or reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older with hemophilia A or B, with or without factor VIII or IX inhibitors (neutralizing antibodies), and by China’s National Medical Products Administration, or NMPA, in December 2025, for routine prophylaxis to prevent or reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes in pediatric patients 12 years of age and older and adults with severe hemophilia A or B with or without factor IX inhibitors. Qfitlia is the first and only therapeutic designed to lower antithrombin, a protein that inhibits blood clotting, with the goal of promoting thrombin generation to rebalance hemostasis and prevent bleeds. A regulatory submission for Qfitlia has also been completed in Brazil.
In addition to our marketed products, we have multiple potential drivers of future growth, including additional transformative medicines currently in development for TTR and both other rare and prevalent diseases. We are advancing nucresiran, our next-generation investigational RNAi therapeutic in development for the treatment of ATTR amyloidosis. In November 2024, we announced positive results from the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of nucresiran in healthy volunteers. These results demonstrated that twice annual dosing of 300 mg of nucresiran resulted in mean reductions of serum TTR of greater than 90% from baseline at day 15 that were maintained over six months. In September 2025, we initiated the TRITON-PN Phase 3 clinical trial of nucresiran in patients with hATTR polyneuropathy, and in June 2025, we initiated the TRITON-CM Phase 3 clinical trial of nucresiran in patients with ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy.
We are also developing zilebesiran, an investigational, subcutaneously administered RNAi therapeutic targeting angiotensinogen, for the treatment of hypertension. In 2023, we entered into a Collaboration and License Agreement, or the Roche Collaboration and License Agreement, with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Genentech, Inc. or, collectively, Roche, pursuant to which we established a worldwide, strategic collaboration for the joint development and commercialization of zilebesiran. In August 2025, we reported that our KARDIA-3 Phase 2 clinical trial, which was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of zilebesiran as an add-on therapy in adult patients with high cardiovascular risk and uncontrolled hypertension despite treatment with two to four standard of care antihypertensive medications, met the objective of informing the design, patient population, and dose for a global Phase 3 cardiovascular outcomes trial. In September 2025, we initiated a Phase 3 cardiovascular outcomes clinical trial, ZENITH (ZilebEsiraN CardIovascular OuTcome Study in Hypertension), which is designed to evaluate the potential of zilebesiran to reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with uncontrolled hypertension on two or more antihypertensives, one being a diuretic.
We are also advancing mivelsiran (formerly ALN-APP), an investigational RNAi therapeutic targeting amyloid precursor protein in development for the treatment of cerebral amyloid angiopathy, or CAA, and Alzheimer’s disease, or AD. In July 2025, we presented single- and multiple-dose data from the Phase 1 clinical trial of mivelsiran in patients with early-onset AD. These data demonstrated that single and multiple doses of mivelsiran were generally well tolerated and demonstrated robust, durable, dose-dependent reductions of soluble amyloid precursor protein beta, or sAPPβ, in cerebrospinal fluid. In July 2024, we initiated the cAPPricorn-1 Phase 2 clinical trial of mivelsiran in patients with CAA. We expect to initiate a Phase 2 clinical trial of mivelsiran in patients with AD in the first half of 2026.
We have additional late-stage investigational programs advancing toward potential commercialization with collaborators, including cemdisiran for the treatment of complement-mediated diseases. Our collaborator, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or Regeneron, is advancing cemdisiran in combination with its anti-C5 monoclonal antibody, pozelimab, in a Phase 3 clinical trial
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in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, and as a monotherapy and in combination with pozelimab in Phase 3 clinical trials in myasthenia gravis and geographic atrophy. In August 2025, Regeneron announced that cemdisiran monotherapy met the primary and key secondary endpoints in the Phase 3 NIMBLE clinical trial in generalized myasthenia gravis and that it is planning a U.S. regulatory submission for cemdisiran monotherapy in the first quarter of 2026, pending discussions with the FDA.
Convertible Senior Notes and Repurchases
In September 2025, we issued $661.3 million aggregate principal amount of 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2028, or the 2028 Notes. The 2028 Notes will mature on September 15, 2028, unless earlier converted, redeemed or repurchased. The 2028 Notes will not bear regular interest. Before June 15, 2028, holders of 2028 Notes will have the right to convert their 2028 Notes in certain circumstances and during specified periods. From and after June 15, 2028, the 2028 Notes will be convertible at the option of the holders of 2028 Notes at any time prior to the close of business on the trading day immediately preceding the maturity date. We will settle any conversions of 2028 Notes by paying or delivering, as applicable, cash or shares of our common stock, par value $0.01 per share, or Common Stock, or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, at our election.
In connection with the issuance of the 2028 Notes, we paid $35.3 million, including expenses to enter into privately negotiated capped call transactions with certain initial purchasers of the 2028 Notes or their respective affiliates and certain other financial institutions, or capped call transactions. The capped call transactions are expected generally to reduce the potential dilution upon conversion of the 2028 Notes in the event that the market price per share of our Common Stock, as measured under the terms of the capped call transactions, is greater than the strike price of the capped call transactions, which initially corresponds to the conversion price of the 2028 Notes, and is subject to anti-dilution adjustments generally similar to those applicable to the conversion rate of the 2028 Notes. The initial cap price of the capped call transaction is approximately $837.61 per share, and is subject to certain adjustments under the terms of the capped call transactions.
Concurrently with the pricing of the 2028 Notes, we entered into privately negotiated transactions, or the September 2025 note repurchase transactions, with certain holders of our 1.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027, or the 2027 Notes, to repurchase for cash approximately $637.8 million aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes for a total repurchase cost (including accrued and unpaid interest) of approximately $1.11 billion. In addition, in December 2025, we entered into additional privately negotiated transactions, or the December 2025 note purchase transactions, with certain holders of our 2027 Notes to repurchase for cash approximately $34.4 million aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes for a total repurchase cost (including accrued and unpaid interest) of approximately $52.3 million. Following the closing of the December 2025 note purchase transactions, or, together with the September 2025 note purchase transactions, the note repurchase transactions, approximately $362.8 million aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes remain outstanding. We had previously entered into capped call transactions with certain financial institutions in connection with the issuance 2027 Notes, which transactions remain in place following the note repurchase transactions.
Revolving Credit Facility
In September 2025, we entered into a revolving credit agreement, or the Revolving Credit Agreement, among the lenders party thereto, Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, or the Agent, and the other parties named therein. The Revolving Credit Agreement provides for a $500.0 million revolving line of credit, or the Revolving Credit Facility, including a $150.0 million letter of credit sublimit. The Revolving Credit Agreement provides that we have the right at any time and from time to time to incur one or more incremental revolving commitments and/or incremental term loans, subject to certain customary conditions and other requirements.
At our option, and subject to certain conditions, borrowings bear interest at a base rate, a term Secured Overnight Financing Rate, or SOFR, rate or an alternative currency term rate, plus, in each case, an applicable margin based upon our Total Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement). For borrowings that bear interest at a term SOFR rate, the applicable margin is a per annum amount equal to an amount between 1.50% and 2.50% (depending on our Total Leverage Ratio). Interest is payable quarterly in arrears with respect to borrowings bearing interest at the alternate base rate or on the last day of an interest period, but at least every three months, with respect to borrowings bearing interest at a term SOFR rate or an alternative currency term rate. We are also required to pay on a quarterly basis a commitment fee in a per annum amount equal to an amount between 0.20% to 0.35% (depending on our Total Leverage Ratio) of unused available commitments under the Revolving Credit Facility. We are also obligated to pay the Agent fees customary for revolving credit facilities of this size and type.
The obligations under the Revolving Credit Agreement are required to be guaranteed by certain of our material domestic subsidiaries and are secured by substantially all of our assets and the assets of such subsidiary guarantors, subject to customary exceptions. The Revolving Credit Agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants and conditions to borrowing, as well as customary events of default.
Revolving loans under the Revolving Credit Agreement may be borrowed, repaid and reborrowed, without premium or penalty (subject to customary breakage costs), until their maturity date under the Revolving Credit Agreement, or the Maturity
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Date, at which time all amounts borrowed must be repaid. The Maturity Date is currently September 30, 2030, but may be adjusted to an earlier date upon the occurrence of certain events in accordance with the terms of the Revolving Credit Agreement.
As of December 31, 2025, we had no borrowings and $17.5 million of letters of credit outstanding under the Revolving Credit Agreement.
RNAi Therapeutics – A Class of Innovative Medicines
Overview of RNAi Therapeutics
Alnylam was founded in 2002 to translate the discovery of RNAi into a new class of medicines, which we refer to as RNAi therapeutics. One of the biggest scientific challenges with RNAi therapeutics has been delivering the therapeutic to its destination in the body. We have made tremendous progress on delivery of RNAi therapeutics, beginning with delivery to the liver and more recently with delivery to the CNS and other tissues. We believe this success will enable us to sustainably and organically create and commercialize transformative medicines that benefit patients around the world across a broad range of disease areas and indications.
Early RNAi delivery efforts focused on delivery of RNAi therapeutics utilizing LNPs, which encapsulate siRNA molecules in specific lipid-based formulations. This technology enables systemic delivery with intravenous drug administration and is associated with potent, rapid and durable target gene silencing and an encouraging tolerability profile. Our first commercial product, ONPATTRO, is formulated utilizing LNPs.
In parallel, we advanced a proprietary technology that conjugates a sugar molecule, referred to as GalNAc, to the siRNA molecule. This delivery approach enables more convenient, subcutaneous administration of our drug candidates directed to liver cells expressing target genes. Results from our Enhanced Stabilization Chemistry, or ESC, GalNAc-conjugate delivery platform have demonstrated a durability of effect that provides increased potency and durability, as well as a wide therapeutic index, and has the potential to support once-monthly, once-quarterly, and bi-annual subcutaneous dose regimens. Our more recently approved medicines, AMVUTTRA, GIVLAARI, OXLUMO and Leqvio utilize this conjugate platform.
Our next generation Enhanced Stabilization Chemistry-Plus, or ESC+, GalNAc-conjugates utilize advanced design features to further improve specificity, while maintaining potency and durability, further improving our therapeutic index by up to six-fold. Our first RNAi therapeutics based on this ESC+ design, zilebesiran and elebsiran, are currently in late-stage clinical development.
Additional advancements include our IKARIA™ platform harboring chemistry innovations that enable robust target knockdown with the potential for bi-annual or annual dosing regimens. We believe that this platform could have potential applications in a wide range of diseases. In November 2024, we announced positive interim results from the Phase 1 clinical trial of nucresiran, our next generation investigational RNAi therapeutic in development for the treatment of ATTR amyloidosis which utilizes our IKARIA technology, demonstrating rapid knockdown of TTR that was sustained for six months following a single dose.
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Our platform enhancements have also provided a strong foundation for pursuing a conjugate-based approach to extrahepatic delivery, including delivery to the brain and spinal cord, as well as ocular delivery. In July 2022, our publication in Nature Biotechnology showcased data utilizing an alternative conjugate approach based on a hexadecyl (C16) moiety as a lipophilic ligand, with proof-of-concept demonstrated in rodent and non-human primates. C16 conjugates provide robust CNS knockdown with wide biodistribution and long duration of action. In 2023, we announced positive interim results from the Phase 1 clinical trial of mivelsiran, the first investigational RNAi therapeutic that leverages our C16 conjugate technology, in early onset AD. Mivelsiran targets amyloid precursor protein and is currently in development for the treatment of AD and CAA. We are also advancing our C16 technology as part of our collaboration with Regeneron, including work on ALN-HTT02, our investigational RNAi therapeutic in development for the treatment of Huntington’s disease, or HD, which is a devastating, fatal neurodegenerative disease for which there are currently no approved disease-modifying therapies.
We are continuing to advance other extrahepatic delivery approaches, including delivery to muscle and adipose cells, as well as to additional tissues in line with our Alnylam 2030 goal to expand to 10 tissue types by 2030. In addition, we are exploring peptide and antibody-based approaches for targeted siRNA delivery to new tissues, including as part of our collaboration with PeptiDream, Inc., which aims to discover and develop novel conjugates for targeted delivery of RNAi therapeutics to a broader range of tissues. As we seek to address more complex conditions with multiple comorbidities, we are also advancing our GEMINI technology, which combines conjugate siRNAs for the simultaneous silencing of two transcripts using a single chemical entity.
Finally, we continue to leverage human genetics to advance our efforts to bring innovative medicines to patients. We have established six major collaborations—including with the UK BioBank and Our Future Health—to support the sourcing of novel, genetically validated targets and to secure access to databases of genetic information.
Our Product Pipeline
Our broad pipeline includes six approved products and multiple late and early-stage investigational RNAi therapeutics across a broad range of disease areas and indications. We describe our commercial and clinical-stage pipeline in more detail below. The clinical-stage therapeutics described below are in various stages of clinical development and the scientific information included about these therapeutics is preliminary and investigative. These clinical-stage therapeutics have not been approved by the FDA, EMA, or any other health authority and no conclusions can or should be drawn regarding the safety or efficacy of these investigational therapeutics.
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The table below represents our commercial products and late- and early-stage development programs as of February 1, 2026.
As indicated in the table above, to date we have received marketing approval for AMVUTTRA, ONPATTRO, GIVLAARI and OXLUMO, Novartis has received approval for Leqvio, and Sanofi has received approval for Qfitlia, in each case in certain territories for the specific indications approved in each such territory, with additional regulatory submissions pending.
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Our TTR Franchise
About Transthyretin (ATTR) Amyloidosis
ATTR amyloidosis is an underdiagnosed, rapidly progressive and fatal disease that affects multiple parts of the body including the heart, nerves and digestive system. There are two forms of ATTR – hATTR and wild-type ATTR, which can manifest in a variety of ways. We estimate that ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy – including hereditary and wild-type forms – affects more than 300,000 people worldwide, while hATTR amyloidosis with polyneuropathy affects fewer than 30,000 people worldwide.
AMVUTTRA (vutrisiran)
AMVUTTRA (vutrisiran) is a subcutaneously administered RNAi therapeutic targeting TTR. With its rapid knockdown, it targets and silences TTR mRNA, thereby reducing the production of TTR protein before it is made. AMVUTTRA utilizes our ESC+ delivery platform, and is designed for increased potency and high metabolic stability to allow for quarterly subcutaneous administration.
Vutrisiran has received orphan drug designation in the U.S., EU and Japan; specific orphan drug designations vary by country/region.
AMVUTTRA — hATTR Amyloidosis with Polyneuropathy
In June 2022, AMVUTTRA was approved by the FDA for the treatment of hATTR amyloidosis with polyneuropathy in adults. AMVUTTRA was subsequently approved in the EU, UK, Argentina, Switzerland and Canada for the treatment of hATTR amyloidosis in adult patients with stage 1 or stage 2 polyneuropathy, in Japan for the treatment of TTR type familial amyloidosis with polyneuropathy, and in Brazil for the treatment of hATTR amyloidosis in adults and in multiple other countries/regions globally. AMVUTTRA has launched in several additional countries and regulatory filings in additional territories are currently under review and additional filings are planned for 2026.
AMVUTTRA — ATTR Amyloidosis with Cardiomyopathy
In March 2025, the FDA approved our sNDA for AMVUTTRA for the treatment of the cardiomyopathy of wild-type or hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis in adults to reduce cardiovascular mortality, cardiovascular hospitalizations and urgent heart failure visits. In June 2025, the EC approved AMVUTTRA for the treatment of wild-type or hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis in adult patients with cardiomyopathy, following a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the EMA. AMVUTTRA has also been approved by ANVISA, the PMDA, the MHRA, and Health Canada for the treatment of ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy. We have also filed for regulatory approval for vutrisiran (the generic name for AMVUTTRA) in Colombia, Republic of South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Republic of Serbia, North Macedonia, and Kuwait and additional regulatory filings are pending or planned in 2026 and beyond.
ONPATTRO (patisiran)
ONPATTRO (patisiran) is an intravenously administered RNAi therapeutic targeting TTR. It is designed to target and silence TTR mRNA, thereby reducing the production of TTR protein before it is made. ONPATTRO blocks the production of TTR in the liver, reducing its accumulation in the body’s tissues to halt or improve the progression of disease.
Patisiran has received orphan drug designations in the U.S., EU and Japan; specific orphan drug designations vary by country/region.
ONPATTRO — hATTR Amyloidosis with Polyneuropathy
ONPATTRO is the first ever FDA-approved RNAi therapeutic and was our first product to receive marketing approval. In the U.S. and Canada, ONPATTRO is indicated for the treatment of hATTR amyloidosis with polyneuropathy in adults. In the EU, Switzerland, Brazil and Israel, ONPATTRO is indicated for the treatment of hATTR amyloidosis in adults with stage 1 or stage 2 polyneuropathy, and in Japan, ONPATTRO is indicated for the treatment of TTR type familial amyloidosis with polyneuropathy.
Patisiran was also evaluated in a Phase 4 clinical trial in hATTR amyloidosis patients with polyneuropathy due to a T60A or V122I variant.
ONPATTRO — ATTR Amyloidosis with Cardiomyopathy
In February 2025, ONPATTRO received regulatory approval from ANVISA in Brazil for the treatment of ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy. We do not plan to pursue label expansions for ONPATTRO in other regions.
Nucresiran — ATTR Amyloidosis
Nucresiran is our next generation investigational RNAi therapeutic in development for the treatment of ATTR amyloidosis that utilizes our IKARIA technology and provides the potential to achieve deeper and more durable rapid knockdown of TTR, allowing for less frequent dosing. In December 2023 and November 2024, we announced positive initial results in the Phase 1
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study of nucresiran in healthy volunteers. Single doses of 300 mg or higher of nucresiran achieved rapid knockdown with a mean TTR reduction of greater than 90% at Day 15. A peak mean TTR reduction of 96% was achieved at Day 29 and a mean TTR reduction of greater than 90% was sustained at Day 180. At all dose levels evaluated to date, single doses of nucresiran have been well tolerated. The majority of adverse events across doses have been mild and none have been considered to be related to treatment. There have been no safety signals identified, including no injection site reactions and no liver-related signals.
In September 2025, we initiated the TRITON-PN Phase 3 clinical trial of nucresiran in patients with hATTR polyneuropathy, and in June 2025, we initiated the TRITON-CM Phase 3 clinical trial of nucresiran in patients with ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy.
Nucresiran has received orphan drug designation in the U.S.
Our Other Marketed Products
GIVLAARI (givosiran) — Acute Hepatic Porphyria (AHP)
AHP refers to a family of ultra-rare, genetic diseases characterized by potentially life-threatening attacks and, for some patients, chronic manifestations that negatively impact daily functioning and quality of life. AHP is comprised of four types: acute intermittent porphyria, hereditary coproporphyria, variegate porphyria, and aminolevulinic acid dehydratase-deficiency porphyria. We estimate there are approximately 3,000 AHP patients diagnosed in the U.S. and EU with active disease. Each type of AHP results from a genetic defect leading to deficiency in one of the enzymes of the heme biosynthesis pathway in the liver. AHP disproportionately impacts women of working and childbearing age, and symptoms of the disease vary widely. Severe, unexplained abdominal pain is the most common symptom, which can be accompanied by limb, back or chest pain, nausea, vomiting, confusion, anxiety, seizures, weak limbs, constipation, diarrhea, or dark or reddish urine. The nonspecific nature of AHP signs and symptoms can often lead to misdiagnoses of other more common conditions such as viral gastroenteritis, irritable bowel syndrome and appendicitis. Consequently, patients with AHP can wait up to 15 years for a confirmed diagnosis. In addition, long-term complications and comorbidities of AHP can include hypertension, chronic kidney disease, or liver disease including hepatocellular carcinoma.
GIVLAARI is the first GalNAc-conjugate RNA therapeutic to be approved. GIVLAARI works by specifically reducing induced liver aminolevulinic acid synthase 1 mRNA, leading to reduction of toxins associated with attacks and other disease manifestations of AHP and is administered by subcutaneous injection.
GIVLAARI is approved in the U.S. for the treatment of adults with AHP and in the EU for the treatment of AHP in adults and adolescents aged 12 years and older. GIVLAARI has also received marketing authorizations for the treatment of AHP in adults in Brazil, Canada and Mexico and for the treatment of AHP in adults and adolescents in Japan, the UK, Argentina, Australia, Switzerland, Israel, Taiwan, UAE and Kuwait. We have also filed for regulatory approval for givosiran (the generic name for GIVLAARI) in Colombia, South Korea, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Serbia, and additional regulatory filings are pending or planned in 2026 and beyond.
OXLUMO (lumasiran) — Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1 (PH1)
PH1 is an ultra-rare genetic disease that affects an estimated one to three individuals per million in the U.S. and Europe. PH1 is characterized by oxalate overproduction in the liver. The excess oxalate results in the deposition of calcium oxalate crystals in the kidneys and urinary tract and can lead to the formation of painful and recurrent kidney stones and nephrocalcinosis. Renal damage is caused by a combination of tubular toxicity from oxalate, calcium oxalate deposition in the kidneys, and urinary obstruction by calcium oxalate stones. PH1 is associated with a progressive decline in kidney function, which exacerbates the disease as the excess oxalate can no longer be effectively excreted, resulting in subsequent accumulation and deposition of oxalate in bones, eyes, skin, and heart, leading to severe illness and death. Management options prior to availability of OXLUMO were limited to hyperhydration, crystallization inhibitors and, in a minority of patients with a specific genotype, pyridoxine (vitamin B6). These measures do not adequately address oxalate overproduction but instead help to delay inevitable progression to kidney failure and the need for intensive dialysis as a bridge to a dual or sequential liver/kidney transplant. Liver transplantation is the only intervention that addresses the underlying metabolic defect, but is associated with high morbidity and mortality, and life-long immunosuppression.
OXLUMO is an RNAi therapeutic targeting hydroxyacid oxidase 1, or HAO1, developed for the treatment of PH1. HAO1 encodes glycolate oxidase, or GO, an enzyme upstream of the disease-causing defect in PH1. OXLUMO works by degrading HAO1 mRNA and reducing the synthesis of GO, which inhibits hepatic production of oxalate, the toxic metabolite responsible for the clinical manifestations of PH1. OXLUMO utilizes our ESC-GalNAc-conjugate technology, which enables subcutaneous dosing with increased potency and durability and a wide therapeutic index.
OXLUMO is the first approved pharmaceutical therapy for PH1. OXLUMO is approved in the U.S. for the treatment of PH1 to lower urinary oxalate levels in pediatric and adult patients, and has received marketing authorization in the EU for the treatment of PH1 in all age groups. OXLUMO has also received additional marketing authorizations in Argentina, Australia,
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Brazil, the UK, Switzerland, Canada, Israel, Oman, Qatar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and South Korea, and regulatory filings in other territories are pending and additional filings are planned for 2026 and beyond.
Leqvio (inclisiran) — Hypercholesterolemia
Hypercholesterolemia, also known as high cholesterol, is a lipid disorder in which there are abnormally high levels of fat in the blood, which increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. Approximately 100 million people worldwide suffer from hypercholesterolemia and are treated with lipid lowering therapies, predominantly statins, to reduce LDL-C and the associated risk of death, nonfatal myocardial infarction and nonfatal stroke or associated events. Nonetheless, statins are associated with well-known limitations, residual risk for cardiovascular events remains, and current therapies for the management of elevated LDL-C remain insufficient in some subjects. This is particularly the case in patients with pre-existing coronary heart disease and/or diabetes or a history of familial hypercholesterolemia who are at the highest risk and require the most intensive management.
Our RNAi therapeutic Leqvio, developed and commercialized by our collaborator, Novartis, is the first and only siRNA therapy (or RNAi therapeutic) to lower LDL-C, and is the first RNAi therapeutic approved for a prevalent disease. Leqvio is subcutaneously administered and targets proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9, or PCSK9, to reduce LDL-C levels and could help improve outcomes for patients with ASCVD, a deadly form of cardiovascular disease.
As of the end of December 2025, Leqvio had been approved in over 100 countries. Multiple additional Phase 3 clinical trials of Leqvio are currently ongoing, including two cardiovascular outcomes trials in secondary prevention, ORION-4 co-sponsored by Novartis and Oxford University and the Novartis-sponsored VICTORION-2-PREVENT.
In February 2013, we and The Medicines Company (acquired by Novartis in January 2020), or MDCO, entered into a license and collaboration agreement pursuant to which we granted to MDCO an exclusive, worldwide license to develop, manufacture and commercialize RNAi therapeutics targeting PCSK9 for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia and other human diseases, which we refer to as the MDCO agreement. Following its acquisition of MDCO, Novartis has all of the rights and obligations under the MDCO agreement. A description of the MDCO agreement is included below under the heading “Our Collaboration and Licensing Strategy.”
Qfitlia (fitusiran) — Hemophilia
Hemophilia is a hereditary bleeding disorder characterized by an underlying defect in the ability to generate adequate levels of thrombin needed for effective fibrin clot formation, thereby resulting in recurrent bleeds into joints, muscles, and major internal organs. There are approximately 200,000 people living with hemophilia A and hemophilia B worldwide. Standard treatment for people with hemophilia currently involves replacement of the deficient clotting factor either as prophylaxis or on-demand therapy, which can lead to a temporary restoration of thrombin generation capacity. However, with current factor replacement treatments people with hemophilia are at risk of developing neutralizing antibodies, or inhibitors, to their replacement factor, a very serious complication affecting as many as one third of people with severe hemophilia A and a smaller fraction of people with hemophilia B. People who develop inhibitors become refractory to replacement factor therapy and are twice as likely to be hospitalized for a bleeding episode.
Antithrombin, or AT, acts by inactivating thrombin and other coagulation factors, and plays a key role in normal hemostasis by helping to limit the process of fibrin clot formation. Lowering AT may promote the generation of sufficient levels of thrombin needed to form an effective fibrin clot and prevent bleeding. This rationale is supported by human genetic data suggesting that co-inheritance of thrombophilic mutations, including AT deficiency, may ameliorate bleeding in hemophilia. We believe this approach is a unique and innovative strategy for preventing bleeding in people with hemophilia.
Qfitlia is a subcutaneously administered RNAi therapeutic targeting AT for the treatment of hemophilia A and B, with and without inhibitors, that is being advanced by our collaborator, Sanofi. Fitusiran is designed to lower levels of AT with the goal of promoting sufficient thrombin generation to prevent bleeding.
Qfitlia was approved by the FDA in March 2025 for routine prophylaxis to prevent or reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older with hemophilia A or B, with or without factor VIII or IX inhibitors (neutralizing antibodies) and by China’s NMPA in December 2025 for routine prophylaxis to prevent or reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes in pediatric patients 12 years of age and older and adults with severe hemophilia A or B with or without factor IX inhibitors. A regulatory submission for Qfitlia has also been completed in Brazil.
We have granted Sanofi global rights to develop and commercialize fitusiran and any back-up products. A description of our Sanofi collaboration, as well as the amended and restated AT3 License Terms, is included under the heading “Our Collaboration and Licensing Strategy.”
Additional Late-Stage Clinical Development Programs
Zilebesiran — Hypertension
Hypertension is a complex multifactorial disease clinically defined by most major guidelines as a systolic blood pressure of above 140 mm Hg and/or a diastolic blood pressure greater than 90 mm Hg, although the American College of Cardiology/
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American Heart Association guidelines define hypertension as a systolic blood pressure above 130 mm Hg and/or a diastolic blood pressure greater than 80 mm Hg. More than one billion people worldwide live with hypertension. In the U.S. alone, approximately 47 percent of adults live with hypertension, with more than half of patients on medication remaining above the blood pressure target level. Despite the availability of anti-hypertensive medications, there remains a significant unmet medical need, especially given the poor rates of adherence to existing daily oral medications and daily peak and trough effects, resulting in inconsistent blood pressure control and an increased risk for stroke, heart attack and premature death. In particular, there are a number of high unmet need settings where novel approaches to hypertension warrant additional development focus, including patients with poor medication adherence and in patients with high cardiovascular risk.
Zilebesiran is an investigational, subcutaneously administered RNAi therapeutic targeting angiotensinogen, or AGT, a protein that plays an important role in regulating blood pressure, that is in development for the treatment of hypertension in high unmet need populations. AGT is the most upstream precursor in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, a cascade which has a demonstrated role in blood pressure regulation and its inhibition has well-established anti-hypertensive effects. Zilebesiran inhibits the synthesis of AGT in the liver, potentially leading to durable reductions in AGT protein and ultimately, in the vasoconstrictor angiotensin II.
In August 2025, we reported that our KARDIA-3 Phase 2 clinical trial, which was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of zilebesiran as an add-on therapy in adult patients with high cardiovascular risk and uncontrolled hypertension despite treatment with two to four standard of care antihypertensive medications, met the objective of informing the design, patient population, and dose for a global Phase 3 cardiovascular outcomes trial. In September 2025, we initiated a Phase 3 cardiovascular outcomes clinical trial, ZENITH (ZilebEsiraN CardIovascular OuTcome Study in Hypertension), which is designed to evaluate the potential of zilebesiran to reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with uncontrolled hypertension on two or more antihypertensives, one being a diuretic.
In July 2023, we announced a collaboration with Roche to co-develop and co-commercialize zilebesiran. As part of our collaboration with Roche we are also developing ALN-AGT01 RVR-001, a reversal agent for zilebesiran using our REVERSIR platform. We initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial of ALN-AGT01 RVR-001 in healthy volunteers in November 2024. A description of the Roche Collaboration and License Agreement is included below under the heading “Our Collaboration and Licensing Strategy.”
Cemdisiran — Complement-Mediated Diseases
The complement system plays a central role in immunity as a protective mechanism for host defense, but its dysregulation results in a broad range of human diseases including myasthenia gravis, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, and geographic atrophy, among others.
Cemdisiran is a subcutaneously administered, investigational RNAi therapeutic targeting the C5 component of the complement pathway in development for the treatment of complement-mediated diseases. In June 2024, we granted Regeneron global rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize cemdisiran as a monotherapy in addition to the license we previously granted Regeneron to develop, manufacture and commercialize cemdisiran in combination with anti-C5 antibodies. Regeneron is now solely responsible for development, manufacturing, and commercialization of cemdisiran as a monotherapy and in combination with anti-C5 antibodies. Regeneron is evaluating cemdisiran in combination with its anti-C5 monoclonal antibody, pozelimab, in a Phase 3 clinical trial in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and as a monotherapy and in combination with pozelimab in Phase 3 clinical trials in myasthenia gravis and geographic atrophy. In August 2025, Regeneron announced that cemdisiran monotherapy met the primary and key secondary endpoints in the Phase 3 NIMBLE clinical trial in generalized myasthenia gravis and that it is planning a U.S. regulatory submission for cemdisiran monotherapy in the first quarter of 2026, pending discussions with the FDA.
Elebsiran — Chronic Hepatitis Delta Virus Infection
Elebsiran (formerly ALN-HBV02 (VIR-2218)) is a subcutaneously administered, investigational RNAi therapeutic targeting the HBV genome for the treatment of chronic hepatitis delta, or CHD, which is being advanced by our collaborator, Vir Biotechnology, Inc., or Vir. Elebsiran is designed to inhibit expression of all HBV proteins, including hepatitis B surface antigen. CHD is the most severe form of chronic viral hepatitis and was recently classified as carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. People living with the disease rapidly progress to cirrhosis, liver failure, and liver-related death. There are currently no approved treatments in the U.S., and treatment options are limited in the EU and globally.
Vir is currently evaluating elebsiran in combination with tobevibart in multiple clinical trials as part of its ongoing ECLIPSE registrational program, including the ECLIPSE 1 Phase 3 clinical trial in CHD, which is fully enrolled with topline data expected in the fourth quarter of 2026, the ECLIPSE 2 Phase 3 clinical trial, which is evaluating the switch to the combination of elebsiran and tobevibart in patients who have not achieved undetectable hepatitis delta virus RNA with bulevirtide treatment, and the ECLIPSE 3 Phase 2b trial, which is evaluating the combination of elebsiran and tobevibart compared to bulevirtide monotherapy in bulevirtide treatment-naive patients. Topline data from ECLIPSE 2 and 3 are expected in the first quarter of 2027. In January 2026, Vir announced positive data from the ongoing Phase 2 SOLSTICE clinical trial in
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CHD, in which the combination of tobevibart and elebsiran achieved an undetectable HDV RNA rate of 88% in a subset of participants evaluable at Week 96.
In March 2025, we and Vir entered into an amended and restated collaboration and license agreement relating to elebsiran, pursuant to which Vir remains solely responsible for the development, manufacturing and commercialization of elebsiran, and we remain entitled to receive milestone payments upon the achievement of specified regulatory and commercial milestones and royalties on net sales of elebsiran. In connection with the amended and restated agreement, Vir made a payment to us of $30.0 million, and we agreed not to opt into a profit-sharing arrangement with respect to elebsiran.
In June 2024 and December 2024, Vir announced that the FDA granted Fast Track designation and Breakthrough Therapy designation, respectively, for the combination of tobevibart and elebsiran for the treatment of CHD. In addition, the combination received PRIME designation from the EMA and European orphan drug designation in December 2024 for the same indication.
Early-Stage Clinical Development Programs
Mivelsiran — Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and Alzheimer’s Disease
Mivelsiran is an investigational, intrathecally administered RNAi therapeutic targeting amyloid precursor protein, or APP, in development for the treatment of CAA and AD. Genetic mutations that increase production of APP or alter its cleavage cause early-onset CAA, early-onset AD, or both. Mivelsiran is designed to decrease APP mRNA in the CNS to decrease synthesis of APP protein and all downstream intracellular and extracellular APP-derived cleavage products, including amyloid beta, or Aβ. Reducing APP protein production is expected to reduce the secretion of Aβ peptides that aggregate into extracellular amyloid deposits in CAA and AD and reduce the intraneuronal APP cleavage products that may trigger the formation of neurofibrillary tangles and cause neuronal dysfunction in AD. Mivelsiran is the first program utilizing our C16 conjugate technology, which enables enhanced delivery to cells in the CNS, to enter clinical development.
In early 2022, we initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial of mivelsiran in patients with early-onset AD, and in April 2023 and July 2023, we reported positive interim results. In February 2024, we announced that the FDA had provided clearance to initiate Part B of the Phase 1 clinical trial at sites in the U.S. The FDA confirmed that multiple dosing in the Phase 1 clinical trial may proceed at doses up to 180 mg given every six months, which covers all dose regimens planned to be explored in Part B. A partial clinical hold remains in place in the U.S. for higher or more frequent dosing regimens. Part A has now been completed, and Part B is ongoing.
In July 2025, we announced positive Phase 1 single and multiple dose data from the Phase 1 clinical trial of mivelsiran in early-onset AD. Single and multiple doses of mivelsiran were generally well tolerated and demonstrate robust, durable, dose-dependent reductions of soluble amyloid precursor beta, or SAPPβ, in the cerebrospinal fluid. We expect to initiate a Phase 2 clinical trial of mivelsiran in patients with AD in the first half of 2026.
In July 2024, we announced we had initiated dosing in cAPPricron-1, a phase 2 clinical trial of mivelsiran in patients with CAA. Enrollment in cAPPricorn-1 is ongoing.
We have full global development and commercialization rights to mivelsiran in all indications, and we are responsible for all development and commercialization costs of mivelsiran other than Regeneron’s share of the Phase 1 budget.
ALN-HTT02 — Huntington’s Disease (HD)
HD is an inherited autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by abnormal expansion of cytosine-adenine-guanine repeats in exon 1 of the HTT gene, leading to production of aberrant mHTT proteins containing elongated polyglutamine tracts that are prone to aggregate in neurons. Typically, HD is an adult-onset degenerative disease with a protracted but relentlessly progressive course. The disease is characterized by a triad of symptom domains comprising behavioral/psychological, cognitive, and abnormal motor movements. These symptoms, in combination, lead to severe disability and morbidity, and ultimately to a bed-bound state followed by death. No pharmacological agent, approved or otherwise, provides long-lasting improvement in clinically meaningful outcomes.
ALN-HTT02 is an investigational, intrathecally administered RNAi therapeutic targeting huntingtin, or HTT, that is in development, in collaboration with Regeneron, for the treatment of HD. ALN-HTT02 is designed to target a conserved sequence in exon 1 of the HTT messenger RNA, thereby reducing the expression of all isoforms of HTT protein, including the shorter HTT1a isoform encoded by the first exon of the gene. HTT1a has been implicated as a key contributor to disease pathology but is missed by many HTT-lowering therapeutic strategies. Beyond the more inclusive exon 1 targeting strategy, our underlying C16-siRNA delivery platform may offer an opportunity to fully explore the potential efficacy of HTT-lowering via widespread distribution, deep and sustained lowering, and infrequent dosing regimens.
In September 2024, November 2024, February 2025, and October 2025 we presented nonclinical data supporting the tolerability of deep and sustained HTT-lowering in wild-type nonhuman primates after single and repeated intrathecal administration of ALN-HTT02. In October 2025, we initiated a Phase 1b clinical trial of ALN-HTT02 in adult patients with HD (NCT06585449) and expect to present initial data from this trial in the second half of 2026.
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ALN-6400 — Bleeding Disorders
An estimated three million people in the U.S. are living with an inherited bleeding disorder. Many bleeding disorders have no approved treatments, and many of the treatments that are available are burdensome. The second most common inherited bleeding disorder, Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia, or HHT, is a vascular bleeding disorder with no approved therapies. It is estimated to affect approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. and approximately 1.6 million people worldwide. Approximately 90% of patients with HHT experience recurrent nosebleeds, which can be severe and life threatening. The majority of patients with HHT also suffer from iron deficiency anemia, and GI bleeding and heavy menstrual bleeding are also common.
Plasminogen, or PLG, is a protein that is produced in the liver. Once PLG is converted to plasmin, it drives fibrinolysis, which is the breakdown of the fibrin mesh that stabilizes blood clots. ALN-6400 is a GalNAc-conjugated RNAi therapeutic that targets PLG. In preclinical studies, ALN-6400 has demonstrated a greater than 90% reduction in circulating PLG in non-human primates with no evidence of increased risk of thrombosis. We believe that with its mechanism of action, ALN-6400 has the potential to address a wide range of bleeding disorders.
In early 2025, we shared data from the first cohort of participants in a Phase 1 clinical trial in healthy volunteers, demonstrating favorable impact on an ex-vivo hemostasis assay. In late 2025, we initiated a Phase 2 clinical trial in patients with HHT, and we plan to share additional data from the Phase 1 clinical trial as well as report clinical proof of concept in HHT in the second half of 2026. We also intend to initiate a Phase 2 clinical trial in a second bleeding disorder in the first half of 2026.
Additional Early-Stage and Preclinical Programs
During 2026, we plan to file three or more new investigational new drug applications, or INDs, or CTAs from our organic product engine. We also intend to continue to build on our progress with extrahepatic delivery during 2026, advancing our CNS programs under our collaboration with Regeneron, as well as continuing to advance our other extrahepatic delivery initiatives, in support of our Alnylam 2030 goal to expand to ten tissue types by the end of 2030.
Our Collaboration and Licensing Strategy
Our business strategy is to develop and commercialize a broad pipeline of RNAi therapeutic products directed across a broad range of disease areas and indications. As part of this strategy, we have entered into, and expect to enter into additional, collaboration and licensing agreements as a means of accessing resources and capabilities to advance our investigational RNAi therapeutic programs. Our collaboration strategy is to form collaborations that create significant value for ourselves and our collaborators in the advancement of RNAi therapeutics. We expect these collaborations to provide us with research and development support, sales and marketing support and/or financial support.
Below is a brief description of our key collaborations.
Product Collaborations
Roche. In July 2023, we entered into the Roche Collaboration and License Agreement, pursuant to which we and Roche established a worldwide, strategic collaboration for the joint development of pharmaceutical products containing zilebesiran. Under the Roche Collaboration and License Agreement, we granted to Roche (i) co-exclusive rights to develop zilebesiran worldwide and commercialize zilebesiran in the U.S., (ii) exclusive rights to commercialize zilebesiran outside of the U.S., and (iii) non-exclusive rights to manufacture zilebesiran for the development and commercialization of zilebesiran outside of the U.S. Roche made an upfront payment of $310.0 million and in April 2024 we achieved the development milestone associated with the dosing of the first patient in the KARDIA-3 Phase 2 clinical trial and received a $65.0 million development milestone payment from Roche. In September 2025, we achieved the development milestone associated with dosing the first patient in the ZENITH Phase 3 clinical trial and received a $300 million development milestone payment from Roche. In addition, we are eligible to receive up to an additional $2.15 billion in contingent payments based on the achievement of specified development, regulatory and sales-based milestones. We are responsible for forty percent (40%), and Roche is responsible for sixty percent (60%), of development costs incurred in the conduct of development activities that support regulatory approval of zilebesiran globally. We and Roche share equally (50/50) all costs incurred in connection with development activities that are conducted primarily to support regulatory approval of zilebesiran in the U.S. if incremental development activities are needed. Roche will be solely responsible for costs incurred in connection with commercialization of zilebesiran outside of the U.S. and will pay us tiered, low double digit royalties based on net sales of zilebesiran on a country-by-country basis outside of the U.S. during the royalty term. We and Roche will share equally (50/50) profits and losses (including commercialization costs) of zilebesiran in the U.S.
For more information regarding the Roche Collaboration and License Agreement, including the ongoing or expected financial and accounting impact on our business, please see Note 4, Net Revenues from Collaborations, to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Regeneron. In April 2019, we entered into a global, strategic collaboration with Regeneron to discover, develop and commercialize RNAi therapeutics for a broad range of diseases by addressing therapeutic targets expressed in the eye and CNS, in addition to a select number of targets expressed in the liver, which we refer to as the Regeneron Collaboration. The Regeneron Collaboration is governed by a Master Agreement, referred to as the Regeneron Master Agreement, which became effective in May 2019.
Under the terms of the Regeneron Collaboration, we are working exclusively with Regeneron to discover RNAi therapeutics for eye and CNS diseases and a select number of target genes expressed in the liver for an initial research period, which we refer to as the Initial Research Term. The Initial Research Term will expire in May 2026.
Regeneron leads development and commercialization for all programs targeting eye diseases (subject to limited exceptions), entitling us to certain potential milestone and royalty payments pursuant to the terms of a license agreement, the form of which has been agreed upon by the parties. We and Regeneron are alternating leadership on CNS and liver programs, with the lead party retaining global development and commercial responsibility.
In August 2019, in connection with the Regeneron Master Agreement, we and Regeneron entered into (i) a co-co collaboration agreement covering the development of cemdisiran, our C5 siRNA, as a monotherapy for C5 complement-mediated diseases, or the C5 Co-Co Collaboration Agreement, and (ii) a license agreement to evaluate anti-C5 antibody-siRNA combinations for C5 complement-mediated diseases including evaluating the combination of Regeneron’s pozelimab and cemdisiran, or the C5 License Agreement. In June 2024, we entered into an amended and restated C5 License Agreement, or the Amended C5 License Agreement, which terminated the C5 Co-Co Collaboration Agreement and granted Regeneron a worldwide license to cemdisiran as a monotherapy in addition to the license to cemdisiran in combination with anti-C5 antibodies. Through the Amended C5 License Agreement, Regeneron is now solely responsible for development, manufacturing, and commercialization of cemdisiran as a monotherapy and in combination with anti-C5 antibodies. Regeneron provided us with an upfront payment of $10.0 million and we will receive certain milestone payments upon receipt of regulatory approval for cemdisiran as a monotherapy, and tiered, double-digit royalties on net sales. The Amended C5 License Agreement did not change our rights to receive low double-digit royalties and commercial milestones of up to $325.0 million on any potential product sales if cemdisiran is used as part of a combination product.
In May 2024, Regeneron notified us of its decision to opt out of the further co-development of mivelsiran, an investigational RNAi therapeutic in development for the treatment of hereditary CAA and autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s Disease under our co-co collaboration agreement with respect to mivelsiran. As a result of Regeneron’s opt-out, we now have full global development and commercialization rights to mivelsiran in all indications, and we are responsible for all development and commercialization costs of mivelsiran other than Regeneron’s share of the then-current Phase 1 budget. Regeneron will no longer share potential future profits from sales of mivelsiran with us, although we remain subject to certain financial obligations to Regeneron under the mivelsiran co-co collaboration agreement. We continue to advance multiple other programs with Regeneron.
For more information regarding the Regeneron Collaboration, including the ongoing or expected financial and accounting impact on our business, please see Note 4, Net Revenues from Collaborations, to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Sanofi. We formed a broad strategic alliance with Sanofi in 2014. In January 2018, we and Sanofi amended our 2014 collaboration and entered into the Exclusive License Agreement, referred to as the Exclusive TTR License, under which we were granted exclusive rights to pursue the further global development and commercialization of TTR products, including ONPATTRO, AMVUTTRA and certain back-up products, and the ALN-AT3 Global License Terms, referred to as the AT3 License Terms, under which Sanofi has the exclusive right to pursue the further global development and commercialization of Qfitlia and certain back-up products. Under the Exclusive TTR License, Sanofi is eligible to receive (i) royalties up to 25% increasing over time, based on annual net sales of ONPATTRO in territories excluding the U.S., Canada and Western Europe, provided royalties on annual net sales of ONPATTRO in Japan were set at 25% beginning at the effective date of the Exclusive TTR License and (ii) tiered royalties on global annual net sales of AMVUTTRA across all indications in the following tiers: 15% of global annual net sales of $0 to $150.0 million; 17.5% of global annual net sales greater than $150.0 million to $300.0 million; 20% of global annual net sales greater than $300.0 million to $500.0 million; 25% of global annual net sales greater than $500.0 million to $1.50 billion; and 30% of global annual net sales in excess of $1.50 billion. In April 2019, we and Sanofi amended and restated the AT3 License Terms to modify certain of the business terms. The material collaboration terms for Qfitlia were unchanged. Under the amended and restated AT3 License Terms, we are eligible to receive tiered royalties on global annual net sales of Qfitlia by Sanofi, its affiliates and its sublicensees. The royalty tiers and amounts that we are eligible to receive on global annual net sales of Qfitlia are the same as the royalty tiers and amounts that we owe to Sanofi on global annual net sales of AMVUTTRA.
Novartis. In February 2013, we entered into an exclusive, worldwide license with MDCO (acquired by Novartis AG in January 2020) pursuant to which MDCO was granted the right to develop, manufacture and commercialize RNAi therapeutics targeting proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia and other human diseases, including Leqvio.
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For more information regarding the MDCO agreement, including its ongoing financial and accounting impact on our business, please see Note 4, Net Revenues from Collaborations, to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Strategic Financing Collaboration
The Blackstone Group Inc. In April 2020, we entered into a strategic financing collaboration with certain affiliates of Blackstone to accelerate our advancement of RNAi therapeutics. As part of the collaboration, Blackstone provided us with $1.00 billion to acquire 50% of royalties and 75% of commercial milestones payable to us in connection with sales of Leqvio and agreed to provide up to $150.0 million in funding towards the development of vutrisiran and zilebesiran pursuant to a co-development agreement that was executed in August 2020. In November 2021, Blackstone opted in to Phase 2 clinical trial funding of zilebesiran and has funded $26.0 million in Phase 2 development costs of zilebesiran. In February 2025, Blackstone opted in to fund up to $54.0 million of Phase 3 clinical trial development costs for zilebesiran. As consideration for Blackstone’s funding under the co-development agreement, we have agreed to pay Blackstone Life Sciences fixed success-based payments upon achievement of specific milestones for vutrisiran and zilebesiran, as well as a 1% royalty on net sales of vutrisiran for ten years. Please see Note 9, Liabilities Related To The Sale Of Future Royalties And Development Funding, to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional details on our transaction with Blackstone, including its ongoing financial and accounting impact on our business.
Other Collaboration and License Agreements
We intend to continue to evaluate and explore opportunities through collaboration and licensing arrangements, and may enter into new collaborations to advance certain products or disease areas. We also have entered into license agreements to obtain rights to intellectual property in the field of RNAi. In addition, because delivery of RNAi therapeutics has historically been an important objective of our research activities, we have entered into various collaboration and licensing arrangements with other companies and academic institutions to gain access to delivery technologies, including various LNP delivery technologies, and we may enter into such agreements in the future to gain access to products or technologies.
Below is a brief description of certain of our other collaboration and license agreements.
PeptiDream, Inc. In July 2021, we entered into a license and collaboration agreement with PeptiDream to discover and develop peptide-siRNA conjugates to create multiple opportunities to deliver RNAi therapeutics to tissues outside the liver. Through this collaboration, we are collaborating with PeptiDream to select and optimize peptides for targeted delivery of small siRNA molecules to a wide range of cell types and tissues via specific interactions with receptors expressed on the target cells. In December 2025, PeptiDream announced the achievement of a preclinical development milestone as part of the collaboration.
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In April 2020, we and Dicerna entered into a Patent Cross-License Agreement, pursuant to which each party agreed to cross-license its respective intellectual property related to our lumasiran program and Dicerna’s nedosiran program, each for the treatment of PH.
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In January 2015, we and Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or Ionis, entered into a second amended and restated strategic collaboration and license agreement, which we further amended in July 2015, or the 2015 Ionis agreement. The 2015 Ionis agreement provides for certain exclusive cross-licenses of intellectual property on eight disease targets, providing each company with exclusive RNA therapeutic license rights for four programs, and extended the parties’ existing non-exclusive technology cross-license through April 2019. Pursuant to the 2015 Ionis agreement, Ionis granted to us an exclusive, low single-digit royalty-bearing license to its chemistry, motif, mechanism and target-specific intellectual property for oligonucleotide therapeutics against four targets. In exchange, we granted to Ionis an exclusive, low single-digit royalty-bearing license to our chemistry, motif, mechanism and target-specific intellectual property for oligonucleotide therapeutics against four targets. Under the original agreement, Ionis licensed to us its patent estate related to antisense motifs and mechanisms and oligonucleotide chemistry for double-stranded RNAi products in exchange for a technology access fee, participation in fees for our collaboration programs and future milestone and royalty payments from us for programs that incorporate Ionis’ intellectual property. We have the right to use Ionis’ intellectual property in our development programs or in collaborations, and Ionis agreed not to grant licenses under these patents to any other organization for the discovery, development and commercialization of double-stranded RNA products designed to work through an RNAi mechanism, except in the context of a collaboration in which Ionis plays an active role. In turn, in exchange for option fees, and future milestone and royalty payments from Ionis for RNAi programs that incorporate certain of our intellectual property, we non-exclusively licensed to Ionis our patent estate relating to antisense motifs and mechanisms and oligonucleotide chemistry to research, develop and commercialize single-stranded antisense therapeutics, single stranded RNAi therapeutics and to research double-stranded RNAi compounds. Ionis also received a license to develop and commercialize double-stranded RNAi drugs targeting a limited number of therapeutic targets on a non-exclusive basis.
Intellectual Property, Proprietary Rights and Exclusivities
We have devoted considerable effort and resources through both in-licensing and filing patent applications on our own inventions, as well as protecting our trade secrets and know-how to establish what we believe to be a strong intellectual
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property position relevant to RNAi therapeutic products and delivery technologies. In this regard, we have amassed a portfolio of patents, patent applications and other intellectual property covering:
•fundamental aspects of the structure and uses of siRNAs, including their use as therapeutics, and RNAi-related mechanisms;
•chemical modifications to siRNAs that improve their suitability for therapeutic and other uses;
•compositions of siRNAs directed to specific targets as well as their methods of use, including as therapeutics and diagnostics;
•delivery technologies, such as in the fields of siRNA conjugates, including carbohydrate, lipophilic and other conjugates as well as cationic liposomes and other delivery vehicles; and
•all aspects of our development candidates and marketed products, with an additional level of protection for trademarks related to our marketed products.
In addition to patents and trademarks for our marketed products, we seek to obtain all available regulatory exclusivities for our marketed products, including data and orphan exclusivities in the relevant jurisdictions.
Key Patents and Regulatory Exclusivities
We typically obtain protection of our product candidates with patents and patent applications directed to compositions of matter and their uses. Below is a summary of selected granted patents that we own or control covering products marketed by us in the U.S. and Europe.
ONPATTRO
| Patent Number | Country/Region* | Patent Type | Expiration Date** | Owner/Licensor |
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| 8168775 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 8/10/2032 | Alnylam |
| 8741866 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 10/20/2029 | Alnylam |
| 9234196 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 10/20/2029 | Alnylam |
| 8802644 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 10/21/2030 | Arbutus Biopharma |
| 8158601 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 11/10/2030 | Arbutus Biopharma |
| 2937418 | Europe | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 8/28/2033 | Alnylam |
| 2344639 | Europe | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 10/20/2029 | Alnylam |
| 2440183 | Europe | Compositions of Matter | 10/21/2030 | Arbutus Biopharma |
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* Shown here are selected granted patents in the U.S. and Europe. Additional granted and pending patents in the U.S., Europe and other countries may be available.
** Expiration dates listed here include any granted or anticipated patent term extensions and supplemental protection certificates but exclude any pediatric extensions that may be available.
In connection with our EMA approval on August 26, 2018, the EMA granted ONPATTRO marketing exclusivity and orphan drug exclusivity, or ODE, until August 26, 2028.
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AMVUTTRA
| Patent Number | Country/Region* | Patent Type | Expiration Date** | Owner/Licensor |
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| 8106022 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 12/12/2029 | Alnylam |
| 8828956 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 12/4/2028 | Alnylam |
| 9370581 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 12/4/2028 | Alnylam |
| 9399775 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 11/16/2032 | Alnylam |
| 10131907 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 8/24/2028 | Alnylam |
| 10208307 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 7/28/2036 | Alnylam |
| 10570391 | United States | Compositions of Matter | 11/16/2032 | Alnylam |
| 10612024 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 8/14/2035 | Alnylam |
| 10683501 | United States | Methods of Use | 7/28/2036 | Alnylam |
| 10806791 | United States | Compositions of Matter | 12/4/2028 | Alnylam |
| 11286486 | United States | Methods of Use | 7/28/2036 | Alnylam |
| 11401517 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 8/14/2035 | Alnylam |
| 3301177 | Europe | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 11/16/2032 | Alnylam |
| 3329002 | Europe | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 7/28/2036 | Alnylam |
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* Shown here are selected granted patents in the U.S. and Europe. Additional granted and pending patents in the U.S., Europe and other countries may be available.
** Expiration dates listed here do not account for any patent term extensions, supplemental protection certificates or pediatric extensions that may be available.
In connection with its FDA approval on June 13, 2022, AMVUTTRA received new chemical entity, or NCE, exclusivity until June 13, 2027. AMVUTTRA was also granted ODE for hATTR-PN until June 13, 2029, and for ATTR-CM until March 20, 2032 (this date is not yet updated in the FDA’s administrative databases).
On September 15, 2022, the EMA approved AMVUTTRA for the treatment of hATTR-PN, and subsequently extended the indication to ATTR-CM in June 2025. In connection with these approvals, AMVUTTRA benefits from eight years of data exclusivity, which expires on September 16, 2030; ten years of market protection, which expires on September 16, 2032; and ten years of orphan market exclusivity, which expires on September 16, 2032.
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GIVLAARI
| Patent Number | Country/Region* | Patent Type | Expiration Date** | Owner/Licensor |
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| 8106022 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 12/12/2029 | Alnylam |
| 8828956 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 12/4/2028 | Alnylam |
| 9133461 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 5/14/2033 | Alnylam/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| 9631193 | United States | Methods of Use | 3/15/2033 | Alnylam/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| 10119143 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 10/3/2034 | Alnylam/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| 10125364 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 3/15/2033 | Alnylam/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| 10131907 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 8/24/2028 | Alnylam |
| 2836595 | Europe | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 4/10/2033 | Alnylam/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
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* Shown here are selected granted patents in the U.S. and Europe. Additional granted and pending patents in the U.S., Europe and other countries may be available.
** Expiration dates listed here do not account for any patent term extensions, supplemental protection certificates or pediatric extensions that may be available.
In addition, in connection with our FDA approval on November 20, 2019, the FDA granted GIVLAARI ODE until November 20, 2026. In connection with our EMA approval on March 2, 2020, the EMA granted GIVLAARI Marketing Exclusivity and ODE until March 2, 2030.
OXLUMO
| Patent Number | Country/Region* | Patent Type | Expiration Date** | Owner/Licensor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8106022 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 12/12/2029 | Alnylam |
| 8828956 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 12/4/2028 | Alnylam |
| 9828606 | United States | Compositions of Matter | 12/26/2034 | Dicerna Pharmaceuticals |
| 10131907 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 8/24/2028 | Alnylam |
| 10435692 | United States | Methods of Use | 12/26/2034 | Dicerna Pharmaceuticals |
| 10465195 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 12/26/2034 | Dicerna Pharmaceuticals |
| 10478500 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 10/9/2035 | Alnylam |
| 10487330 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 12/26/2034 | Dicerna Pharmaceuticals |
| 10612024 | United States | Compositions of Matter | 8/14/2035 | Alnylam |
| 10612027 | United States | Compositions of Matter & Methods of Use | 8/14/2035 | Alnylam |
| 3087184 | Europe | Compositions of Matter | 12/26/2034 | Dicerna Pharmaceuticals |
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* Shown here are selected granted patents in the U.S. and Europe. Additional granted and pending patents in the U.S., Europe and other countries may be available.
** Expiration dates listed here do not account for any patent term extensions, supplemental protection certificates or pediatric extensions that may be available.
In addition, in connection with our FDA approval on November 23, 2020, the FDA granted OXLUMO ODE until November 23, 2027. In connection with our EMA approval on November 19, 2020, the EMA granted OXLUMO Marketing Exclusivity and ODE until November 19, 2030.
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Trademarks
We file trademarks to protect our corporate brand and our products. Typically, we file trademark applications in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere in the world as appropriate. In addition to multiple pending trademark applications in the U.S. and other major countries, we have registered trademarks in the U.S., including but not limited to Alnylam® and the Alnylam logo, as well as AMVUTTRA® and the AMVUTTRA logo, ONPATTRO® and the ONPATTRO logo, GIVLAARI® and the GIVLAARI logo and OXLUMO® and the OXLUMO logo.
Competition
Competition in the pharmaceutical marketplace remains intense, with hundreds of companies competing to discover, develop, and market new drugs. For our marketed and discovery assets, we face a broad spectrum of current and potential competitors, ranging from very large, global pharmaceutical companies with significant resources, to biotechnology companies with resources and expertise comparable to our own, to smaller biotechnology companies with fewer resources and less expertise than those we currently possess. We believe that for most or all of our drug development programs, there will be one or more competing programs being marketed and/or under development at other companies.
The competition we face can be grouped into three broad categories:
•other companies working to develop RNAi and microRNA therapeutic products;
•companies developing technology known as antisense, which, like RNAi, attempts to silence the activity of specific genes by targeting the mRNAs copied from them; and
•marketed products and development programs for therapeutics that treat the same diseases for which we are marketing products or developing treatments.
As RNAi therapies expand beyond rare diseases to other more common conditions, an increasing number of other companies are investing in and developing RNAi therapeutic products. Some of these companies are seeking, as we are, to develop chemically synthesized siRNAs as drugs. Others are following a gene therapy approach, with the goal of treating patients with synthetic, exogenously introduced genes designed to produce siRNA-like molecules within cells.
Companies working on chemically synthesized siRNAs include but are not limited to ADARx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or ADARx, Amgen Inc., Argo Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd., or Argo, Aro Biotherapeutics, Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or Arrowhead, AstraZeneca plc, or AstraZeneca, Dyne Therapeutics, Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Novartis, Novo Nordisk A/S, or Novo Nordisk, SanegeneBio, Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc., Silence Therapeutics plc, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd., and Wave Life Sciences Ltd., as well as our collaborators Regeneron, Roche, Sanofi and Vir.
The competitive landscape continues to expand, and we expect that additional companies will initiate programs focused on the development of RNAi therapeutic products using the approaches described above, as well as potentially new approaches that may result in more rapid development of RNAi therapeutics or more effective technologies for RNAi drug development or delivery.
Competing Drugs for Our Marketed Products and Late-Stage Investigational RNAi Therapeutics
ATTR Amyloidosis Franchise. ATTR amyloidosis is an underdiagnosed, rapidly progressive, debilitating and fatal disease caused by misfolded TTR proteins, which accumulate as amyloid deposits in various parts of the body, including the nerves, heart and gastrointestinal tract. Patients may present with polyneuropathy, cardiomyopathy, or both manifestations of disease.
hATTR Amyloidosis with Polyneuropathy (hATTR-PN). In addition to ONPATTRO and AMVUTTRA, currently approved therapies to treat hATTR-PN include WAINUA (eplontersen) marketed by Ionis and AstraZeneca, and TEGSEDI (inotersen, not available in the U.S.) marketed by Ionis. There are a number of product candidates in clinical development for the treatment of hATTR-PN, including nexiguran ziclumeran (nex-z, formerly NTLA-2001) which is being developed by Intellia Therapeutics, Inc., or Intellia, and Regeneron and is in Phase 3 clinical development; and ART-001 which is being developed by Accuredit Therapeutics and is in Phase 2 clinical development (China only); and YOLT-201 which is being developed by YolTech Therapeutics Co., Ltd., or YolTech, and is planned for Phase 3 clinical development after recent completion of its Phase 2 clinical study (China only).
ATTR Amyloidosis with Cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). In addition to AMVUTTRA, currently approved therapies to treat ATTR-CM include VYNDAQEL/VYNDAMAX (tafamidis) marketed by Pfizer Inc. and ATTRUBY (acoramidis) marketed by BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., or BridgeBio in the U.S. and Beyonttra (acoramidis) marketed by Bayer AG in Europe and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a subsidiary of AstraZeneca, or Alexion, in Japan. Additionally, there are a number of other product candidates in clinical development, including WAINUA (eplontersen), which is being developed by AstraZeneca and Ionis and is in Phase 3 clinical development, nexiguran ziclumeran (nex-z, formerly NTLA-2001) which is being developed by Intellia and Regeneron and is in Phase 3 clinical development; cliramitug (formerly ALXN2220/NI006) which is being developed by Neurimmune AG and Alexion and is in Phase 3 clinical development; coramitug (NNC-6019-0001) which is being developed by Novo Nordisk and is in Phase 3 clinical development; ART-001 which is being developed by Accuredit
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Therapeutics and is in Phase 2 clinical development (China only); YOLT-201 which is being developed by YolTech and is in Phase 2 clinical development (China only); AT-02 which is being developed by Attralus, Inc. and is in Phase 1 clinical development; and BPR-30221616 which is being developed by Chengdu Beite Pharma and is in Phase 1 clinical development (China only).
Acute Hepatic Porphyria. GIVLAARI is currently the only approved therapy for prophylactic treatment of AHP in the U.S. and EU. Nevertheless, Recordati S.p.A has two products, PANHEMATIN and NORMOSANG, that are approved in the U.S. and EU, respectively, for the treatment of acute porphyria attacks, and some physicians may prescribe these therapies off-label for the prophylactic treatment of AHP.
Primary Hyperoxaluria. In addition to OXLUMO, Novo Nordisk’s RIVFLOZA (nedosiran) is approved in the U.S. for treatment of PH1 to lower urinary oxalate levels in children nine years of age and older and adults with relatively preserved kidney function. Other currently used treatments include hyper-hydration, vitamin B6, oral citrate, and dual liver/kidney transplantation. Transplantation is a costly and invasive procedure and carries significant morbidity and mortality risk. In addition, several companies have investigational drugs in clinical development for the treatment of primary hyperoxaluria, including stiripentol which is being developed by Biocodex, Inc. in collaboration with M8 Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; ABO-101 which is being developed by Arbor Biotech and Chiesi Group; and YOLT-203 which is being developed by YolTech (China only). We believe that these approved products and product candidates, if approved, could compete with OXLUMO.
Hypercholesterolemia. In addition to Leqvio, several companies have approved products for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia, including Amgen Inc. (REPATHA), Sanofi S.A. (PRALUENT), Amarin Corporation (VASCEPA), Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. (NEXLETOL), and Regeneron (EVKEEZA). In 2025, regulatory approvals were granted for two PCSK9 inhibitors for the treatment of primary hypercholesterolemia, including U.S. FDA approval of lerodalcibep (LEROCHOL) from LIB Therapeutics, LLC and Chinese NMPA approval of recaticimab from Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. There are also several companies with investigational drugs in varying stages of clinical development for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia, including Merck & Co., Inc., Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., AstraZeneca, Arrowhead, Ahn-Gook Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., AddPharma, Inc., Hasten Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Visirna Therapeutics HK Limited, and Verve Therapeutics, Inc.
Hemophilia. In addition to Qfitlia, there are several approved products for the treatment of hemophilia, including: Factor VIII replacement products, Factor IX replacement products, factor replacement products with extended half-lives, anti-TFPI products and a bispecific antibody that mimics Factor VIII. For the treatment of individuals with inhibitors, there is an approved Factor VIIa replacement product, two anti-TFPI products, an activated prothrombin complex concentrate, as well as a bispecific antibody that mimics Factor VIII. In addition, new, innovative molecules have been approved or are currently in development for treatment of hemophilia A and B, both with and without inhibitors. BioMarin’s ROCTAVIAN is approved for the treatment of Hemophilia A. ROCTAVIAN is a gene therapy that uses virus-like particles to deliver a functional section of a particular gene into the liver cells of a person with hemophilia. A number of companies are also actively developing similar gene therapy products for the treatment of hemophilia. We believe that these approved products and product candidates compete with Qfitlia.
Hypertension. There are multiple approved hypertension treatments, including angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers, calcium channel blockers, diuretics, beta blockers, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists, and Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd.’s Tryvio. Several companies have treatments in development for uncontrolled or resistant hypertension. Aldosterone synthase inhibitors, or ASIs, have emerged as a new class of therapeutics, with AstraZeneca and Mineralys Therapeutics Inc. submitting NDAs to the FDA for baxdrostat and lorundrostat, respectively. Additionally, AstraZeneca and Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH are both investigating ASIs in combination with SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with hypertension and other comorbidities. There are also angiotensinogen-targeting siRNAs in development from Argo (in collaboration with Novartis), ADARx and Sanegene (in collaboration with Innovent Biologics, Inc.). We believe that these approved products and product candidates could compete with zilebesiran, if zilebesiran receives regulatory approval.
Myasthenia Gravis. In addition to standard symptomatic or broad immunosuppressive therapies such as pyridostigmine, corticosteroids, azathioprine, and mycophenolate mofetil, several targeted products have been approved for the treatment of generalized myasthenia gravis, or gMG. These include complement C5 inhibitors such as SOLIRIS and ULTOMIRIS (Alexion) and ZILBRYSQ (UCB S.A.), as well as neonatal Fc receptor inhibitors including VYVGART (argenx SE), RYSTIGGO (UCB S.A.), and IMAAVY (Johnson & Johnson). UPLIZNA (Amgen Inc.), a CD19-targeted B-cell-depleting antibody, is also approved for the treatment of gMG. Several companies have assets in late-stage clinical development for gMG, including Alexion (gefurulimab), Novartis (remibrutinib), and EMD Serono, Inc. (cladribine). We believe that these approved products and product candidates could compete with cemdisiran, if cemdisiran receives regulatory approval.
Regulatory Matters
U.S. Regulatory Considerations
The research, testing, approval, manufacture and marketing of drug products and their delivery systems, as well as their pricing (including discounts and rebates) and price reporting are extensively regulated in the U.S. and the rest of the world. In the U.S., drugs are subject to rigorous regulation by the FDA. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or FDCA, and other
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federal and state statutes and regulations govern, among other things, the research, development, testing, approval, manufacture, storage, record keeping, reporting, labeling, advertising, promotion, marketing, import, export, and distribution of drug products. Regulations and administrative guidance often are revised or reinterpreted by the agencies in ways that may significantly affect our business and our products. It is impossible to predict whether legislative changes will be enacted by the FDA or comparable foreign regulations, or if guidance or interpretations will change. Failure to comply with the applicable regulatory requirements may subject a company to a variety of administrative or judicially-imposed sanctions and the inability to obtain or maintain required approvals to test or market drug products. These sanctions could include, among other things, warning letters, product recalls, product seizures, total or partial suspension of production or distribution, exclusion from participation in government programs or contracts, clinical holds, injunctions, fines, civil penalties or criminal prosecution.
New Drug Development Process
The steps ordinarily required before a new drug product may be marketed in the U.S. include:
•completion of nonclinical laboratory tests, animal tests and formulation studies conducted according to good laboratory practices, or GLP, and applicable regulations;
•the submission to the FDA of an IND, which must become effective prior to commencement of clinical testing in the U.S.;
•approval by an institutional review board, or IRB, representing each clinical site before each trial may be initiated;
•completion of adequate and well-controlled clinical trials in accordance with good clinical practices, or GCP, to establish that the drug product is safe and effective for the indication and other conditions of use for which FDA approval is sought;
•submission to the FDA of an NDA (or supplemental NDA for approved products);
•satisfactory completion of a pre-approval FDA inspection of the manufacturing facility or facilities at which the product will be produced to assess compliance with current good manufacturing practices, or cGMP; and
•FDA review and approval of the NDA (or supplemental NDA for approved products).
Satisfaction of the FDA’s pre-market approval requirements typically takes several years, but may vary substantially depending upon the complexity of the product and the nature of the disease. Government regulation may delay, limit or prevent marketing of product candidates for a considerable period of time and impose costly procedures on a company’s activities. Success in early-stage clinical trials does not necessarily assure success in later-stage clinical trials. Data obtained from clinical activities, including but not limited to the data derived from our clinical trials for product candidates, are not always conclusive and may be subject to alternative interpretations that could delay, limit or even prevent regulatory approval. Even if a product receives regulatory approval, later discovery of previously unknown problems with a product, including new safety risks from commercial use, clinical or nonclinical data or manufacturing issues, may result in restrictions on the product or even complete withdrawal of the product from the market.
Once a drug candidate is selected for development, it enters the nonclinical testing stage. Nonclinical tests include laboratory evaluation of product chemistry and formulation, as well as animal pharmacology and toxicology studies. The conduct of the nonclinical tests and formulation of compounds for testing must comply with applicable regulations and requirements, including in some cases the FDA’s GLP requirements and the Animal Welfare Act. The results of nonclinical testing are submitted to the FDA as part of an IND, together with chemistry, manufacturing and controls information, analytical and stability data, a proposed clinical trial protocol and other information. Clinical testing in humans may not commence until an IND is in effect. Nonclinical testing typically continues even after the IND is submitted.
An IND becomes effective 30 days after receipt by the FDA unless the FDA notifies the sponsor that the proposed investigation(s) are subject to a clinical hold. If the FDA imposes a clinical hold, or partial clinical hold, the FDA’s concerns must be resolved prior to the commencement of clinical trials, or the FDA can enforce other changes to the clinical development program or clinical trial(s). The IND review process can result in substantial delay and expense. If the FDA accepts the IND, the drug can then be studied in human clinical trials to determine if the product candidate is safe and effective.
Clinical trials involve the administration of an investigational new drug to healthy volunteers or patients under the supervision of a qualified investigator. Clinical studies are conducted under protocols detailing, among other things, the objectives of the trial and the safety and effectiveness criteria to be evaluated. Each protocol involving testing on human subjects in the U.S. must be submitted to the FDA as part of the IND. In addition, clinical trials must be conducted in compliance with federal regulations and requirements, including GCP, to assure data integrity and protect the rights, safety and well-being of trial participants. These requirements include, among other things, that all research subjects must provide their informed consent prior to participating in any clinical study and that each clinical trial must be reviewed and approved by an IRB either centrally or individually at each institution at which the clinical trial will be conducted. The IRB must review and approve, among other things, the study protocol and informed consent information to be provided to study subjects. An IRB must operate in compliance with FDA regulations.
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Clinical trials to support NDAs are typically conducted in three sequential phases, which may overlap or be combined.
•In Phase 1, the initial introduction of the drug into a limited number of healthy human subjects or patients, the drug is tested primarily to assess safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacological actions and metabolism associated with increasing doses.
•Phase 2 usually involves trials in a limited patient population with the specified disease or condition the drug is intended to treat to assess the optimum dosage and dose regimen, identify possible adverse effects and safety risks, and to preliminarily evaluate the efficacy of the drug in the indication being studied.
•Phase 3 clinical trials further evaluate the drug’s clinical efficacy, side effects and safety in an expanded patient population, typically at geographically dispersed clinical trial sites, to establish the overall benefit-risk relationship of the drug and to provide an adequate basis for regulatory approval and labeling of the drug.
Phase 1, Phase 2 or Phase 3 testing of any drug candidates may not be completed successfully within any specified time period, if at all. Progress reports detailing the results of the clinical trials must be submitted at least annually to the FDA and more frequently in other situations, and the occurrence of serious adverse events must also be reported. The FDA, IRB, or the clinical trial sponsor may suspend or discontinue a clinical trial at any time for various reasons, including a finding that the subjects or patients are being exposed to an unacceptable health risk. Finally, sponsors are required to publicly disseminate information about certain ongoing and completed clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, a government website administered by the National Institutes of Health, or NIH.
Post-approval trials, sometimes referred to as Phase 4 clinical trials, may be conducted after initial marketing approval. These trials are used to gain additional experience from the treatment of patients in the intended therapeutic indication and are commonly intended to generate additional safety data regarding use of the product in a clinical setting. In certain instances, the FDA may mandate the performance of Phase 4 clinical trials as a condition of approval of an NDA or BLA.
New Drug Applications
We believe that any RNAi product candidate we develop, whether for the treatment of ATTR amyloidosis, AHP, PH1, hypercholesterolemia or the various indications targeted in our clinical development or nonclinical discovery programs, will be regulated by the FDA as a new drug that is not considered to be a biologic, and thus will require an NDA rather than a biologics license agreement, or BLA. FDA approval of an NDA is required before commercial distribution of a new drug may begin in the U.S. An NDA must include the results of extensive nonclinical, clinical and other testing, as described above, a compilation of data relating to the product’s pharmacology, information related to the product’s chemistry and manufacturing, proposed labeling and other information.
In addition, under the Pediatric Research Equity Act of 2023, or PREA, an NDA for a new active ingredient, new indication, new dosage form, new dosing regimen, or new route of administration typically must contain data assessing the safety and effectiveness for the claimed indication in all relevant pediatric subpopulations and to support dosing and administration for each pediatric subpopulation for which the product is safe and effective, although deferrals or full or partial waivers may be available in some circumstances.
The cost of preparing and submitting an NDA is substantial. Under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, or PDUFA, as amended, each NDA must be accompanied by an application fee. For fiscal year 2026, the application fee for each NDA requiring clinical data is approximately $4.7 million. The PDUFA also imposes an annual program fee for each approved prescription drug product, which has been set at approximately $442,000 for fiscal year 2026. The FDA adjusts the PDUFA user fees on an annual basis. Fee waivers, reductions and exceptions are available in certain circumstances. Additionally, no application fees are assessed on NDAs for products designated as orphan drugs, unless the NDA also includes a non-orphan indication.
The FDA conducts a preliminary review of all NDAs within the first 60 days after submission before accepting them for filing to determine whether they are sufficiently complete to permit substantive review. During that time, the FDA may request additional information before deciding whether to accept an NDA for filing. If the FDA determines that an NDA is not sufficiently complete to permit substantive review, it will issue a refuse to file determination and the NDA will not be substantively reviewed by the FDA. If the submission is accepted for filing, the FDA begins an in-depth review of the NDA. The FDA has agreed to specified performance goals regarding the timing of the completion of its review of NDAs, although the goals are not binding and the FDA does not always meet these goals. Under the goals and policies agreed to by the FDA under PDUFA, the FDA has ten months from filing in which to complete its initial review of a standard application and respond to the sponsor, and six months for a priority review application. A major amendment to an NDA submitted at any time during the review cycle, including in response to a request from the FDA, may extend the goal date by three months.
For novel drug products or drug products that present difficult questions of safety or efficacy, the FDA may refer the application to an advisory committee, which is typically in the form of a panel that includes independent clinicians and other experts, for review, evaluation and a recommendation as to whether the application should be approved and under what conditions. The FDA is not bound by the recommendation of an advisory committee, but it carefully considers and often
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follows such recommendations. In addition, before approving an NDA, the FDA may inspect the facility or facilities where the drug is manufactured and tested to gain assurance that the manufacturing facility or facilities, methods and controls are adequate to preserve the drug’s identity, strength, quality and purity, and are in compliance with regulations governing cGMP requirements. The FDA will also often conduct a bioresearch monitoring inspection of select clinical trial sites to assure data integrity and compliance with applicable GCP requirements, and could also conduct GCP inspections of the sponsor.
If the FDA’s evaluation of an NDA is favorable, the FDA may issue an approval letter, which authorizes commercial marketing of the drug with specific prescribing information for a specific indication. The approved indication may be narrower than what was proposed by the applicant or for a narrower patient population than the population studied in clinical trials. As a condition of NDA approval, the FDA may require post-approval evaluations, including Phase 4 trials, or other surveillance to monitor the drug’s safety or effectiveness and may impose other conditions, including labeling restrictions, such as a Boxed Warning, and/or distribution and use restrictions through a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, or REMS, all of which can materially affect the potential market and profitability of the product. Once granted, product approvals may be further limited or withdrawn if compliance with regulatory requirements is not maintained or safety or other problems are identified following initial marketing.
The FDA will issue a complete response letter, or CRL, if the agency decides not to approve the NDA in its present form. The complete response letter describes the deficiencies that the FDA has identified in an application and may recommend actions that the applicant can take to address the deficiencies. Such actions may include, among other things, conducting additional safety or efficacy studies. Even with the completion of this additional testing or the submission of additional requested information, the FDA ultimately may decide that the application does not satisfy the regulatory criteria for approval. With limited exceptions, the FDA may withhold approval of an NDA regardless of prior advice it may have provided or commitments it may have made to the sponsor.
Post-Approval Regulation
Once an NDA is approved, a product will be subject to extensive post-approval regulatory requirements, including requirements for manufacturing establishment registration and product listing, adverse event reporting, submission of other periodic reports, field alerts, recordkeeping, product sampling and distribution. Additionally, the FDA strictly regulates the labeling and advertising of prescription drug products. Among other things, the FDA generally prohibits pharmaceutical companies from promoting their drugs for uses that are not approved by the FDA as reflected in the product’s approved labeling, although a physician may prescribe a drug for such off-label uses in accordance with the practice of medicine. The FDA and other regulatory agencies actively enforce the laws and regulations prohibiting the promotion of off-label uses. We must also notify the FDA of any change in an approved product beyond variations in the approved application. Certain changes to the product, its labeling or its manufacturing require prior FDA approval and may require the conduct of further clinical investigations to support the change. Such approvals may be expensive and time-consuming and, if not approved, the FDA will not allow the product to be commercially distributed as modified.
Additionally, the quality control and manufacturing procedures for our products must continually conform with cGMP. Manufacturers must devote substantial time, money and effort in the areas of production, quality control, and quality assurance to maintain cGMP compliance. The FDA, and other regulatory agencies, conduct periodic inspections following the initial approval of a product. If a manufacturing facility is not in substantial compliance with the applicable regulations and requirements imposed when the product was approved, regulatory or judicial enforcement action may be initiated, which may include a warning letter, suspension of manufacturing, product seizure, or an injunction against shipment of products from the facility and/or recall of products previously shipped.
Some of our product candidates may need to be administered using specialized drug delivery systems that are considered to be medical devices and may necessitate compliance with regulatory laws applicable to medical devices, including those governing the testing, manufacture, approval, distribution, and marketing of medical devices.
Abbreviated Applications and 505(b)(2) Applications
Once an NDA is approved, the product covered thereby becomes a reference listed drug that can, in turn, be relied upon by potential competitors in support of approval of an abbreviated NDA, or ANDA, or a 505(b)(2) application. An ANDA generally provides an abbreviated approval pathway for a drug product that has the same active ingredients in the same strength, dosage form and route of administration as the listed product, has been shown to be bioequivalent to the listed product, and has the same labeling as the listed product (subject to certain exceptions). The application is “abbreviated” because it need not include nonclinical or clinical data to demonstrate safety and effectiveness and may instead rely on the FDA’s previous finding that the brand drug, or reference drug, is safe and effective. Drugs approved via an ANDA are commonly referred to as generics and can often be substituted by pharmacists under prescriptions written for the original listed drug. A 505(b)(2) application is a type of NDA that contains full reports of investigations of safety and effectiveness, where at least some of the information required for approval comes from studies not conducted by or for the applicant, and for which the applicant has not obtained a right of reference. Such applications often are submitted for changes to previously approved drug products.
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The acceptance and approval of ANDAs and 505(b)(2) applications can be delayed by patents and non-patent exclusivity covering the listed drug. Federal law provides a five-year period of NCE exclusivity following approval of a drug that contains a NCE that has not been previously approved by the FDA. If a listed drug has NCE exclusivity, ANDAs and 505(b)(2) applications referencing the listed drug cannot be submitted to the FDA for five years following the approval of the listed drug unless the application contains a certification challenging a listed patent, i.e., a paragraph IV certification (discussed further below), in which case the ANDA or 505(b)(2) application may be submitted four years following approval of the listed drug. Federal law also provides for a period of three years of exclusivity following approval of a listed product that is not an NCE, if the application contains the results of new clinical investigations, other than bioavailability studies, conducted or sponsored by the applicant and essential to the approval of the application. This three-year exclusivity covers only the conditions of approval for which the new clinical investigations were essential, such as a new dosage form or indication. Five-year and three-year exclusivity will not delay the submission or approval of a full NDA; however, an applicant submitting a full NDA would be required to conduct or obtain a right of reference to all of the nonclinical studies and clinical trials necessary to demonstrate safety and effectiveness.
NDA applicants and NDA holders must provide information about certain patents claiming their drugs, or methods of use of the drug that is the subject of the NDA, for listing in the FDA’s publication “Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations,” commonly referred to as the “Orange Book.” When an ANDA or 505(b)(2) application is submitted, it must contain one of several possible certifications regarding each of the patents listed in the Orange Book for the reference drug. For a method-of-use patent, however, the applicant can submit a statement that it is not seeking approval of a use claimed by the patent instead of making a certification. These certifications (and statements) affect when the FDA can approve the ANDA or 505(b)(2) application. If the ANDA or 505(b)(2) applicant certifies that it does not intend to market its product before a listed patent expires (i.e., a Paragraph III certification), then the FDA will not grant effective approval of the ANDA or 505(b)(2) application until the relevant patent expires. An ANDA or 505(b)(2) applicant may also certify that a listed patent is invalid, unenforceable, or will not be infringed by its proposed product, and thus that it is seeking approval prior to patent expiration (i.e., a Paragraph IV certification). Within 20 days of the FDA’s acceptance of an ANDA or 505(b)(2) application containing a Paragraph IV certification, the applicant must notify the NDA holder and patent owner that the application has been submitted, and provide the factual and legal basis for the applicant’s opinion that the patent is invalid, unenforceable, or not infringed. The NDA holder or patent holder may then initiate a patent infringement suit in response to the Paragraph IV notice. If this is done within 45 days of receiving notice of the Paragraph IV certification, a 30-month stay of the FDA’s ability to approve the ANDA or 505(b)(2) application is triggered. The FDA may approve the proposed product before the expiration of the 30-month stay only if a court finds the patent invalid or not infringed, and the court may shorten or lengthen the 30-month stay under certain limited circumstances.
Orphan Drug Designation
Under the Orphan Drug Act, as amended, the FDA may grant orphan drug designation to a drug intended to treat a rare disease or condition, which is a disease or condition that affects fewer than 200,000 individuals in the U.S. or affects more than 200,000 individuals and for which there is no reasonable expectation of recovering drug development costs in the U.S. from sales in the U.S. Orphan drug designation must be requested before submitting an NDA or an sNDA for the orphan indication. After the FDA grants orphan drug designation, the identity of the therapeutic agent and its potential use for an orphan indication are disclosed publicly by the FDA. We have received orphan drug designation for certain of our products and intend to request orphan drug designation for certain of our product candidates in the future, if applicable. For example, the FDA granted orphan drug designation for patisiran, vutrisiran and nucresiran as therapeutic approaches for the treatment of ATTR amyloidosis, givosiran as a therapeutic approach for AHP, lumasiran as a therapeutic approach for PH1, and inclisiran as a therapeutic approach for homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.
If a product that has orphan drug designation subsequently receives the first FDA approval for that product for the disease for which it has such designation, the product is entitled to orphan drug exclusivity, which means that the FDA may not approve for seven years any other applications, including a full NDA, from another sponsor to market the “same drug” for the same indication, except in limited circumstances. For purposes of small molecule drugs, the FDA defines “same drug” as a drug that contains the same active moiety and is intended for the same use as the previously approved orphan drug. For purposes of large molecule drugs, the FDA defines “same drug” as a drug that contains the same principal molecular structural features, but not necessarily all of the same structural features, and is intended for the same use as the previously approved drug. However, a drug that is “clinically superior” to an orphan drug will not be considered the “same drug” and thus will not be blocked by orphan drug exclusivity. To demonstrate a drug is “clinically superior” to the previously approved orphan drug, a sponsor must show that the drug provides a significant therapeutic advantage over and above the previously approved product in terms of greater efficacy, greater safety, or by providing a major contribution to patient care.
Under the FDA’s regulations, a designated orphan drug may not receive orphan drug exclusivity for a use that is broader than the indication for which it received orphan drug designation and regulatory approval. However, a 2021 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Becerra adopted a broader interpretation of the scope of orphan drug exclusivity, holding that orphan drug exclusivity prevents the FDA from approving another marketing application for the same drug for the same orphan-designated disease or condition for a period of seven years. Although the FDA announced in January 2023 that it will not apply the Catalyst decision beyond the facts at issue in that case, in 2025 a
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federal district court in Neurelis, Inc. v. Brenner struck down another FDA approval, adopting the same interpretation of orphan drug exclusivity as the Eleventh Circuit. The FDA has appealed this decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Legislation has been introduced, but has not been passed, that would codify the scope of orphan drug exclusivity set forth in the FDA’s regulations, rather than the interpretation adopted by the Eleventh Circuit in Catalyst.
In addition, orphan drug exclusivity may be lost if the FDA later determines that the orphan drug designation request was materially defective or if the manufacturer is unable to ensure the availability of sufficient quantities of the drug to meet the needs of patients with the rare disease or condition, or if the manufacturer chooses to provide consent to approval of other applications.
Pediatric Study Plans
The FDCA requires that a sponsor planning to submit an NDA for a drug that includes a new active ingredient, new indication, new dosage form, new dosing regimen or new route of administration must submit a pediatric study plan to the FDA outlining the proposed pediatric study or studies they plan to conduct, including study objectives and design, any deferral or waiver requests, and other information required by regulation. The FDA must then review the information submitted, consult with the sponsor, and agree upon a final plan. The FDA or the sponsor may request an amendment to the plan at any time. Drugs with orphan drug designation are exempt from these requirements to the extent that the indication being sought under the marketing application is within the scope of the designated orphan use.
For NDAs, BLAs, or supplemental applications subject to PREA, sponsors must include an agreed initial PSP in the application when a deferral of pediatric studies is requested. A final decision about granting or denying such requests is made by the review division at the time of approval of the marketing application. Failure to fulfill the requirement to submit a pediatric study plan with the application may be grounds for refusal to file an application. If, under certain situations, the agreed initial PSP included nonclinical and/or pediatric clinical studies that were expected to have been completed before submission of the NDA or supplement, failure of the sponsor to complete these agreed studies in a timely manner may result in a refusal to file.
Fast Track, Breakthrough Therapy and Priority Review Designation
The FDA has several programs designed to expedite the development and approval of drugs intended to treat serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions. These programs include fast track designation, breakthrough therapy designation, and priority review designation. These designations are not mutually exclusive, and a product may qualify for one or more of these programs. While these programs are intended to expedite product development and approval, they do not alter the standards for FDA approval.
The FDA may grant a product fast track designation if it is intended for the treatment of a serious or life-threatening disease or condition, and nonclinical or clinical data demonstrate the potential to address an unmet medical need for such disease or condition. For fast track products, sponsors may have greater interactions with the FDA, and the FDA may initiate review of sections of a fast track product’s application before the application is complete in some circumstances. Fast track designation may be rescinded if the FDA believes that the product no longer meets the qualifying criteria.
A product may be designated as a breakthrough therapy if it is intended, either alone or in combination with one or more products, to treat a serious or life-threatening disease or condition and preliminary clinical evidence indicates that the product may demonstrate substantial improvement over existing therapies on one or more clinically significant endpoints. The FDA may take certain actions with respect to products designated as breakthrough therapies, including holding meetings with the sponsor throughout the development process; providing timely advice to the product sponsor regarding development and approval; involving more senior staff in the review process; assigning a cross-disciplinary project lead for the review team; and taking other steps to aid sponsors in designing the clinical trials in an efficient manner. Breakthrough designation may be rescinded if a product no longer meets the qualifying criteria.
The FDA may designate a product for priority review if it is a product that treats a serious condition and, if approved, would provide a significant improvement in safety or effectiveness of the treatment, prevention, or diagnosis of such condition. A priority designation is intended to direct overall attention and resources to the evaluation of such applications, and it shortens the FDA’s goal for taking action on a marketing application from ten months to six months from filing.
Separate from the FDA’s priority review program, in 2025 the FDA created a new Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher, or CNPV, pilot program. A CNPV may be granted to products with significant potential to address certain national health priorities, which include: (i) addressing a large unmet medical need, (ii) delivering innovative cures, (iii) onshoring drug development and manufacturing, (iv) increasing affordability, or (v) addressing a U.S. public health crisis. The FDA has said it will review marketing applications for drugs with a CNPV within approximately one to two months following filing of a complete application, though the agency retains full discretion to extend the review time if the data or application components submitted are insufficient or incomplete, if the results of pivotal trial(s) are ambiguous, or if the review is particularly complex. In addition, applications filed with a CNPV will be evaluated by a multi-disciplinary review committee led by the FDA’s Office of the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, and the FDA will also provide enhanced communication with companies throughout the development and review process.
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Accelerated Approval
The FDA may grant accelerated approval to a drug product for a serious or life-threatening condition that provides meaningful therapeutic advantage to patients over existing treatments based upon a determination that the product has an effect on a surrogate endpoint that is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit. The FDA may also grant accelerated approval for such a condition when the product has an effect on an intermediate clinical endpoint that can be measured earlier than an effect on irreversible morbidity or mortality, or IMM, and that is reasonably likely to predict an effect on IMM or other clinical benefit, taking into account the severity, rarity, or prevalence of the condition and the availability or lack of alternative treatments.
The accelerated approval pathway is most often used in settings in which the course of a disease is long and an extended period of time is required to measure the intended clinical benefit of a product, even if the effect on the surrogate or intermediate clinical endpoint occurs rapidly.
For products granted accelerated approval, the FDA generally requires sponsors to conduct, in a diligent manner, additional post-approval confirmatory studies to verify and describe the product’s clinical benefit. The Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022 gave the FDA the authority to require, as appropriate, a post-approval study to be underway prior to granting accelerated approval. Failure to conduct required post-approval studies with due diligence, failure to confirm a clinical benefit during the post-approval studies, or dissemination of false or misleading promotional materials would allow the FDA to withdraw the product approval on an expedited basis. All promotional materials for products approved under accelerated approval are subject to prior review by the FDA unless the FDA informs the sponsor otherwise.
Rare Pediatric Disease Designation and Priority Review Voucher
The FDCA provides a rare pediatric disease priority review voucher, or PRV, to sponsors under a program that is intended to incentivize the development of new drug and biological products for the prevention and treatment of “rare pediatric diseases.” A rare pediatric disease is any disease that is a rare disease and is serious or life-threatening with the serious or life-threatening manifestations primarily affecting individuals from birth to 18. Under this program, the sponsor of an application for a rare pediatric disease drug may be eligible to obtain a voucher that can be used to obtain a priority review for a subsequent human drug application.
In order to receive a rare pediatric disease priority review voucher, the product must receive designation from the FDA as a drug for a rare pediatric disease prior to submission of the marketing application. In addition to receiving rare pediatric disease designation, in order to receive a rare pediatric disease priority review voucher upon NDA approval, the application must be granted priority review, rely on clinical data derived from studies examining a pediatric population and dosages of the drug intended for that population, not seek approval for a different adult indication in the original rare pediatric disease product application and be for a drug that does not include a previously approved active ingredient. Rare pediatric disease designation does not guarantee that the sponsor will receive a PRV. If awarded, the PRV may be transferred unlimited times before the PRV is used. The rare pediatric disease PRV program was initially created in 2012, and Congress extended the PRV program through September 30, 2024, with the potential for PRVs to be granted through September 30, 2026 for a drug that receives rare pediatric disease designation by September 30, 2024. Although legislation to extend the rare pediatric disease PRV program has been proposed, Congress has not yet, and may never, pass a bill to reauthorize the program and extend the sunset dates.
Pharmaceutical Coverage, Pricing and Reimbursement
Significant uncertainty exists as to the coverage and reimbursement status of any products for which we obtain regulatory approval. In the U.S. and other countries, patients generally rely on third-party payors to reimburse all or part of the costs associated with their treatment. Adequate coverage and reimbursement from governmental healthcare programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, private health insurers and other organizations is critical to the commercial success of our products. Even if coverage is provided, the approved reimbursement amount may not be high enough to allow us to establish or maintain pricing sufficient to cover our costs, including research, development, manufacture, sale and distribution, and otherwise realize a sufficient return on our investment.
Within the U.S., no uniform policy for coverage and reimbursement exists across all payors. Coverage and reimbursement can differ significantly from payor to payor and may be subject to change at any time. Third-party payors are increasingly seeking to control drug costs by examining the cost effectiveness of products and services in addition to their safety and efficacy; managing drug utilization and challenging the price of drugs. Factors third party payors may consider in determining reimbursement include, among others, the extent to which the product and/or the use of the product is:
•a covered benefit under a health plan;
•safe, effective and medically necessary;
•appropriate for the specific patient;
•clinically superior or therapeutically advantageous compared to other products;
•cost-effective; and
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•neither experimental nor investigational.
Third-party payors may limit coverage of product by, for example, only covering specific products on an approved list, or formulary, which might not include all of the FDA approved indications for a particular product. Some third-party payors may manage utilization of a particular product by requiring pre-approval (known as “prior authorization”) for coverage of particular prescriptions (to allow the payor to assess medical necessity) or otherwise restricting coverage of a product even if used consistent with its approved indication.
There may be significant delays in obtaining coverage for newly approved drugs. Obtaining coverage and reimbursement approval from third-party payors is often a time consuming and costly process that may require us to provide supporting scientific, clinical and cost-effectiveness data, including results from additional pharmacoeconomic studies not required for FDA approval, to each third-party payor. There is no guarantee that we will be able to provide data sufficient to gain acceptance with respect to coverage and reimbursement, and any coverage we do obtain could be more limited than the purposes for which the product is approved by the FDA. Interim payments for new drugs, if applicable, may also not be sufficient to cover our costs and may not be made permanent. Reimbursement may be based on lower-cost drugs that are already marketed, covered, and reimbursed. Coverage policies, third-party reimbursement rates and pharmaceutical pricing regulations may change at any time. Even if favorable coverage and reimbursement status is attained for one or more new products, less favorable coverage policies and reimbursement rates may be implemented in the future.
In order for our products to be eligible for coverage under certain government health care programs, we are required to certify and submit complex pricing calculations to federal agencies and also to offer discounts to government programs as well as government and private purchasers, with potentially significant penalties for non-compliance.
•Our products are eligible to be reimbursed by Medicaid because we participate in the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program and pay a rebate for each unit of product reimbursed by state Medicaid programs. The amount of the rebate for each product is set by law and includes an additional discount if certain reported prices increase faster than inflation. State Medicaid programs and Medicaid managed care plans can seek additional “supplemental” rebates from manufacturers in connection with favorable coverage (e.g., positioning on formularies).
•We submit a calculated “average sales price” for our products under Medicare Part B. Manufacturer price reporting requirements in connection with government programs such as the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program and Medicare Part B are often ambiguous and continue to evolve. For example, as of 2026, there are changes in “average sales price” regulations related to “bona fide service fees,” including a required service vendor certification that service fees are not passed on to providers, and the mandatory submission of the manufacturer’s reasonable assumptions used in calculating “average sales price.” We participate in Medicare Part D discount programs in order for our products to be eligible for coverage under Medicare Part D. Effective January 1, 2025, a new manufacturer discount program took effect, requiring manufacturers to pay a rebate of 10% of the reimbursement in the initial phase of the Part D benefit and 20% in the catastrophic phase of the benefit. Additionally, as the result of recent changes, drug utilization under Medicare Part B and Part D may be subject to an additional discount if the pricing increases more than inflation.
•We also offer discounts on our products to federal agency purchasers under the Federal Supply Schedule, or FSS. FSS participation is required for a drug product to be covered and reimbursed by certain federal agencies and for coverage under Medicaid, Medicare Part B and the Public Health Service, or PHS, 340B drug pricing program. FSS pricing is determined based, in part, on manufacturer-reported prices and is further negotiated periodically with the Department of Veterans Affairs. In addition, prices for drugs purchased by the Veterans Administration, Department of Defense (including drugs purchased by military personnel and dependents through the TRICARE retail pharmacy program), Coast Guard, and PHS are subject to a cap on pricing (known as the “federal ceiling price”) and may be subject to an additional discount if pricing increases more than the rate of inflation.
•To maintain coverage of drugs under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program and Medicare Part B, we extend discounts (generally based on Medicaid Drug Rebate Program pricing submissions) to certain purchasers under the PHS 340B drug pricing program. Purchasers eligible for discounts include hospitals that serve a disproportionate share of financially needy patients, community health clinics and other entities that receive health services grants from the PHS.
Changes to these government programs could affect our business. Further, our price reporting obligations continue to evolve, and are often subject to interpretation by agencies and courts. For instance, the PHS 340B drug pricing program continues to be subject to legal and regulatory activity, including litigation, at the federal and state levels, and any related developments could impact the scope of the program and our obligation to offer discounts. Continued expansion of the PHS 340B drug pricing program and growth of entities claiming entitlement to 340B pricing could impact our revenue.
Price concessions may also need to be offered to private third party payors to obtain favorable coverage or to purchasers to achieve sales. In the U.S., we have entered into value-based agreements, or VBAs, and are negotiating additional VBAs with commercial health insurers. The goal of these agreements is to ensure that we are paid based on the ability of our commercially approved products to deliver results in the real-world setting comparable to those demonstrated in our clinical trials, and the
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agreements are structured to link the performance of our approved products in real-world use to financial terms. Consolidation in the health insurance industry has increased the leverage of large insurers and pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, in pricing and other negotiations and increased price or other concessions that we must offer on our products could potentially and adversely impact product sales, business and results of operations. Local governments and private purchasers, such as hospitals or health systems, are increasingly using bidding procedures to determine what pharmaceutical products and which suppliers will be included in their prescription drug and other healthcare purchasing programs. These measures could reduce the demand for our products, once approved, or put pressure on our product pricing. In addition, we have stated publicly that we will not raise the price of any product for which we receive marketing approval over the rate of inflation, as determined by the consumer price index for urban consumers absent a significant value driver.
Patient cost for covered products may also affect demand for our products. Third party payors are increasingly adopting policies that increase out-of-pocket costs, such as copayments and deductibles, for patients. In the U.S., to help patients access and afford our approved products, we utilize patient support programs that provide financial assistance to patients with commercial insurance to cover the cost of copayments and deductibles. Actions by some third party payors to leverage such financial assistance to reduce payor costs (e.g., by excluding such assistance from annual limitations on member cost-sharing) have been the subject of regulatory action and litigation. Actions that restrict or limit the impact of such financial assistance could reduce demand for our products and have a material adverse effect on our sales, business, and financial condition.
In the U.S., healthcare and pharmaceutical pricing have been the subject of reform efforts and the federal government continues to propose and implement significant and wide-ranging reforms. Drug pricing and reimbursement reform have been a particular area of focus. At the federal level, for example, the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, includes a number of changes intended to address rising prescription drug prices in Medicare Parts B and D such as the following:
•The IRA requires manufacturers to pay rebates for Medicare Part B and Part D drugs whose net price increases exceed inflation;
•The IRA eliminates the “donut hole” under Medicare Part D beginning in 2025 by significantly lowering the beneficiary maximum out-of-pocket cost and requiring manufacturers to subsidize, through a manufacturer discount program, 10% of Part D enrollees’ prescription costs for brand drugs below the out-of-pocket maximum and 20% once the out-of-pocket maximum has been reached.
•The IRA delays the rebate rule that would require pass through of PBM rebates to beneficiaries.
•The IRA authorizes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, to engage in price negotiations with manufacturers of certain high-spend Medicare Part B and Part D products. The negotiated prices will be capped at a statutorily determined ceiling price. There are certain statutory exemptions from the drug price negotiation program, such as for a drug that has one or more orphan drug designations and is approved only for an indication or indications within the scope of such designations.
Manufacturers that fail to comply with the IRA may be subject to various penalties, including civil monetary penalties or a potential excise tax. The impact of the IRA on the pharmaceutical industry is significant and ongoing. Beyond the IRA, changes to Medicaid effective in 2024 eliminated the Medicaid rebate cap and changes to certain Medicare price reporting requirements for drugs beginning in 2026 will likely increase the administrative and compliance burden for manufacturers.
Under the current presidential administration, there has been significant reform activity focused on drug pricing and reimbursement. For example, President Trump issued an Executive Order in April 2025 with multiple directives aimed at lowering drug prices, including refining the Medicare drug price negotiation program established by the IRA, accelerating competition for high-cost prescription drugs by accelerating approval of generics and biosimilars and facilitating the process for re-classifying prescription drugs as over-the-counter drugs, and increasing drug importation. In May 2025, President Trump issued another Executive Order that directed government agencies and officials to identify most-favored nation pricing targets for prescription drugs (and looked to pharmaceutical manufacturers to make significant progress towards delivering target prices to patients), prevent foreign countries from disproportionately shifting the cost of global pharmaceutical research and development to the U.S., and facilitate direct-to-consumer purchasing programs for pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell their products to patients at the most-favored-nation price. In the wake of the Executive Orders and related executive initiatives, a number of pharmaceutical manufacturers have announced direct-to-consumer offerings with discounted prices and/or reached agreement with the federal government regarding pricing for drugs, including prices for Medicaid drugs and newly launched products. A future website sponsored by the federal government that is anticipated to offer pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer channels has also been announced. Federal agencies are developing new drug pricing pilot programs, such as the GENEROUS model which would authorize the federal government to negotiate Medicaid supplemental rebates with participating manufacturers on behalf of state Medicaid programs, in exchange for standardized coverage criteria for participating manufacturer drugs, and proposed Medicare Part B and Part D pilot models that, if finalized as proposed, would replace existing inflation-based Medicare rebates with rebates determined on the basis of international prices, for drugs and patients subject to the model.
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Other healthcare reform efforts or actions may affect access to healthcare coverage or the funding of health care benefits, although the full impact of such efforts or actions cannot be predicted. For example, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that Medicaid provisions in the 2025 budget reconciliation legislation, including restrictions in eligibility and funding for Medicaid, as well as changes to the healthcare marketplace such as the elimination of certain subsidies, will increase the number of uninsured patients.
At the state level, regulators have increasingly enacted laws and other legal reforms designed to control pharmaceutical product pricing. Some of these measures include upper payment limits on state-regulated payers; regulating product access, copayment assistance, and marketing; imposing drug price, cost, and marketing disclosure and transparency requirements; permitting importation from other countries; and encouraging bulk purchasing. For example, on January 5, 2024, the FDA authorized Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration’s drug importation proposal, the first step toward Florida facilitating importation of certain prescription drugs from Canada. States are also increasingly expanding or changing Medicaid supplemental rebate programs to secure additional rebates from manufacturers in exchange for drug coverage. These and other future state-level reform activities could negatively affect Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for our products. We cannot predict how further developments of or changes to these policies and rules will affect our business.
Healthcare Fraud and Abuse
We are subject to various federal, state and local laws targeting fraud and abuse in the healthcare industry, including anti-kickback and false claims laws such as the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the federal civil False Claims Act, or FCA. These laws regulate our interactions with healthcare providers, including prescribers, patients, third party payors and other individuals and entities in the healthcare space, and our government reporting of drug pricing and product information.
Federal and state anti-kickback laws generally prohibit the payment or receipt of kickbacks, bribes or other remuneration in exchange for the referral of patients or other healthcare-related business. For example, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits anyone from, among other things, knowingly and willfully offering, paying, soliciting or receiving any bribe, kickback or other remuneration intended to induce the referral of patients for, or the purchase, order or recommendation of, healthcare products and services reimbursed by a federal healthcare program, including Medicare and Medicaid. In addition to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, there are other federal statutes that prohibit kickbacks. For example, another federal healthcare anti-kickback statute prohibits certain payments related to referrals of patients to certain providers (such as clinical laboratories) and applies to services reimbursed by private health plans as well as government health care programs. Additionally, many states have their own laws that are analogous to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, but vary in scope and may apply regardless of whether any federal or state healthcare program business is involved.
Federal and state false claims laws prohibit anyone from presenting, or causing to be presented, claims for payment to third-party payers that are false or fraudulent. For example, the FCA imposes liability on any person or entity who, among other things, knowingly and willfully presents, or causes to be presented, a false or fraudulent claim for payment by a federal healthcare program, including Medicaid and Medicare. Some suits filed under the FCA, known as “qui tam” actions, can be brought by a “whistleblower” or “relator” on behalf of the government, and such individuals may share in any amounts paid by the entity to the government in fines or settlement. Manufacturers can be held liable under false claims laws, even if they do not submit claims to the government, where they are found to have caused submission of false claims by, among other things, providing incorrect coding or billing advice about their products to customers that file claims, providing inaccurate reporting regarding pricing or other product data in connection with their government price reporting, or by engaging in off-label promotion with customers that file claims. In addition, the government may assert that a claim including items and services resulting from a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute constitutes a false or fraudulent claim for purposes of the FCA. A number of states also have false claims laws, and some of these laws may apply to claims for items or services reimbursed private health insurance. Sanctions under these federal and state fraud and abuse laws may include civil monetary penalties and criminal fines, exclusion from government healthcare programs and imprisonment.
Other laws and regulations have also been enacted by the federal government and various states to regulate the sales and marketing practices of pharmaceutical manufacturers. The laws and regulations generally limit financial interactions between manufacturers and health care providers, require pharmaceutical companies to comply with the pharmaceutical industry’s voluntary compliance guidelines and the relevant compliance guidance promulgated by the federal government, require disclosure to the government and/or public of financial interactions (so-called “sunshine laws”), and/or require registration of pharmaceutical representatives. State laws may also require disclosure of pharmaceutical pricing information and marketing expenditures. Manufacturers must also submit information to the FDA on the identity and quantity of drug samples requested and distributed by a manufacturer during each year.
Violations of federal and state fraud and abuse and other laws may be punishable by criminal or civil sanctions, including fines and civil monetary penalties, and/or exclusion from federal health care programs (including Medicare and Medicaid). Exclusion of a manufacturer would preclude any federal health care program from paying for its products.
The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or FCPA, and similar anti-bribery laws in non-U.S. jurisdictions generally prohibit companies and their officers, directors, employees and intermediaries from offering or making
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improper payments to non-U.S. officials for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business. Violation of the FCPA could result in substantial civil and criminal penalties and remedies, including fines, disgorgement, and imprisonment.
We maintain a global compliance program designed to support the execution of our business strategy and operations in compliance with these laws.
Possible Change in Laws or Policies
From time to time, legislation is drafted and introduced in Congress that could significantly change the statutory provisions governing the approval, manufacturing and marketing of drug products. In addition, FDA regulations and guidance are often revised or reinterpreted by the agency or reviewing courts in ways that may significantly affect our business and development of our product candidates and any products that we may commercialize. It is impossible to predict whether additional legislative changes will be enacted, or FDA regulations, guidance or interpretations will be changed, or what the impact of any such changes may be. Federal budget uncertainties or spending reductions may reduce the capabilities of the FDA, extend the duration of required regulatory reviews, and reduce the availability of clinical research grants.
Our present and future business has been and will continue to be subject to various other laws and regulations. Various laws, regulations and recommendations relating to safe working conditions, laboratory practices, the experimental use of animals, and the purchase, storage, movement, import, export and use and disposal of hazardous or potentially hazardous substances are or may be applicable to our activities. As noted above, the extent of government regulation, which might result from future legislation or administrative action, cannot accurately be predicted.
EU Regulatory Considerations
In the EU, medicinal products are subject to comprehensive pre- and post-market regulation by both EU and national authorities, ensuring oversight of authorization, safety, efficacy, quality, and ongoing monitoring. Recent reforms introduced through the EU Pharma Package and the proposed Biotech Act bring significant changes, including streamlined authorization procedures, enhanced measures for access and affordability, stricter management of medicine shortages, strengthened post-market surveillance, and new requirements addressing environmental and ethical considerations. These initiatives are designed to modernize and harmonize medicines regulation, facilitate patient access to innovative therapies, and provide robust oversight of emerging technologies across the EU.
The legislative process for the EU Pharma Package began with the European Commission’s proposal in April 2023, followed by the development of positions by the European Parliament and the Council. This culminated in Trilogue negotiations, with a political agreement reached in December 2025. The agreed text now awaits formal adoption by both the Parliament and Council, after which it will be published in the Official Journal of the EU. The new Directive and Regulation will then enter into force following a transition period of 18 to 36 months, ultimately modernizing EU pharmaceutical law to better support innovation, access, and supply. Under the agreed EU Pharma Package, companies launching new medicines will benefit from eight years of data protection and one year of market exclusivity, with a possible additional year for innovative products meeting specific criteria. The package empowers EU countries to require adequate supply of protected medicines to meet patient needs and introduces safeguards to prevent misuse for parallel trade. It provides an intellectual property exemption for generic manufacturers to prepare for immediate market entry post-patent expiry, extends this to procurement submissions, and establishes a transferrable exclusivity voucher to incentivize development of priority antibiotics, with a “blockbuster clause” limiting its use for products exceeding €490 million in annual sales.
Clinical Trials
Clinical trials of medicinal products conducted in the EU must comply with the harmonized regulatory framework provided by Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, or the Clinical Trials Regulation, and the International Conference on Harmonization, or ICH, guidelines on GCP. Where the sponsor of the clinical trial is not established within the EU, it must appoint an entity within the EU to act as its legal representative. The legal representative is responsible for ensuring compliance with the sponsor’s obligations under the EU Regulation on Clinical Trials and assumes the role as the addressee for all communications with the sponsor provided for under the Regulation. The sponsor must provide proof of insurance cover or indemnification arrangement for personal injury claims arising through participation in a clinical trial.
A clinical trial to be conducted in an EU Member State must be authorized by the competent authority of the Member State concerned, and positively reviewed by an independent ethics committee. The application for a clinical trial authorization, or CTA, must include, among other things, a copy of the trial protocol and an investigational medicinal product dossier containing information about the manufacture and quality of the medicinal product under investigation, and data derived from non-clinical studies and from its clinical use. Any substantial changes to the trial protocol or other information submitted with the CTAs with a significant impact on the safety of the approved clinical trial must be notified to or approved by the relevant competent authorities and ethics committees in respect of the nature of and reason for such a change.
The Clinical Trials Regulation, which became applicable on January 31, 2022, establishes the procedure to enable sponsors to submit one CTA application for it to be approved in a more streamlined and coordinated manner by two or more countries in the EU/EEA where the clinical trial is to be performed. From January 31, 2023, sponsors are required submit an on-line
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application through a single on-line platform known as Clinical Trials Information System, or CTIS, for approval. To make it more efficient to carry out such multinational trials, one national authority assumes the role as the Reporting Member State to lead the scientific review of the application for consideration by the Member States concerned by the application for agreement within the timeframe stipulated by the Clinical Trials Regulation. Each concerned member state is responsible for assessing country-specific issues concerning the clinical trial including those related to adequacy of the trial sites, facilities, recruitment details.
One of the key objectives of the Clinical Trial Regulation is to strengthen the transparency of clinical trial related information. All data and information in connection with clinical trials entered into the CTIS must be publicly accessible, unless the information benefits from being excluded from disclosure under the Regulation.
Manufacturers are afforded the opportunity to seek scientific advice from regulatory authorities to guide their research and development programs. A request for scientific advice can be made nationally by engaging the national competent authorities or centrally which is coordinated by the EMA at different stages of product development in relation to questions concerning an assessment of the product quality, non-clinical testing and clinical development. Advice is generally not viewed as binding with regard to any future marketing authorization application, or MAA, of the product concerned and departure from the adopted advice should be justified in the MAA.
Marketing Authorizations
After completion of the required clinical testing, we must obtain a marketing authorization before we can place a medicinal product on the market in the EU. There are various application procedures available, depending on the type of product involved. All application procedures require an application to be presented in the internationally harmonized Common Technical Document format, which includes the submission of detailed information about the manufacturing and quality of the product, and nonclinical testing and clinical trial to inform the benefit-risk assessment.
The centralized procedure gives rise to marketing authorizations that are valid throughout the EU and, by extension (after national implementing decisions), in Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, which, together with the EU member states, comprise the European Economic Area, or EEA. Applicants file MAAs with the EMA, where they are reviewed by relevant scientific committees, including the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, or CHMP. The EMA forwards CHMP opinions to the EC, for ratification to adopt an implementing decision for granting a marketing authorization. The centralized procedure is compulsory for medicinal products that (1) are developed by biotechnology processes including advanced therapy medicinal products such as gene and cell therapies, (2) contain a new active substance indicated for the treatment of certain diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, neurodegenerative disorders, viral diseases or autoimmune diseases and other immune dysfunctions or (3) are orphan medicinal products. For medicines that do not fall within these categories, an applicant may voluntarily submit an application for a centralized marketing authorization to the EMA, as long as the CHMP agrees that (i) the medicine concerned contains a new active substance, (ii) the medicine is a significant therapeutic, scientific, or technical innovation, or (iii) the authorization of the medicine under the centralized procedure would be in the interest of public health.
For those medicinal products for which the centralized procedure is not mandatory, the applicant must submit MAAs to the national medicines regulators through one of three procedures: (1) a national procedure, which results in a marketing authorization in a single EU member state; (2) the decentralized procedure, in which applications are submitted simultaneously in two or more EU member states and a reference member state is appointed to lead the scientific assessment; and (3) the mutual recognition procedure, which must be used if the product has already been nationally authorized in at least one EU member state which assumes the role as the reference member state, and the marketing authorization holder wishes to obtain a marketing authorization for the same product in at least one other member state. The concerned member states may refuse to accept the assessment of the reference member state in the decentralized procedure and the mutual recognition procedure where there are grounds related to a serious risk to public health. A national procedure applies where the medicinal product is to be marketed in only one member state and the product does not fall within the mandatory centralized assessment procedure.
Under the centralized procedure in the EU, the maximum timeframe for the evaluation of an MAA is 210 days. However, this timeline excludes clock stops, when additional written information is to be provided by the applicant in response to questions asked by the CHMP, so the overall process typically may take a year or more. Accelerated evaluation might be granted by the CHMP in exceptional cases, when a medicinal product is expected to be of a major interest for public health and therapeutic innovation. Typically, the justification could present the arguments to support the claim that the medicinal product addresses a significant extent the unmet medical needs where there exists the absence or insufficiency of an appropriate alternative therapeutic approach for the disease to be treated and anticipation of high therapeutic benefit of the new product. In this circumstance, the EMA ensures that the opinion of the CHMP is given within 150 days. The EMA granted an accelerated assessment for patisiran, which was approved in the EU in August 2018 under the centralized procedure.
There is an increasing trend in the EU towards greater transparency in the decision-making to allow for greater access to documents held by regulatory authorities in relation to evaluation of medicinal products. While the manufacturing or quality information is currently generally protected against disclosure as it is treated as commercially confidential information, there exists a presumptive public interest right to access the nonclinical and clinical information contained in marketing authorization dossiers, including the full clinical study reports, in response to freedom of information requests after the marketing
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authorization has been granted. As of October 2016, the EMA began proactively publishing clinical data (including clinical study reports) on the agency’s website following the grant, denial or withdrawal of an MAA for a centralized marketing authorization, subject to procedures for limited redactions and protection against unfair commercial use.
Data Exclusivity
MAAs for generic medicinal products do not need to include the results of preclinical studies and clinical trials, but instead can refer to such data included in the marketing authorization of a reference product for which regulatory data exclusivity has expired. Where a marketing authorization is granted for a medicinal product containing a new active substance, that product benefits from eight years of data exclusivity, during which generic MAAs referring to the data of that product will not be accepted by the regulatory authorities, and a further two years of marketing protection, during which such generic products, even if approved, may not be placed on the market until the full 10-year protection period has expired. The 10-year protection period may be extended to 11 years if during the first eight years of the product’s authorization, one or more new therapeutic indications with significant clinical benefit over existing therapies are approved. This period of exclusivity will be reduced under the EU package as described above.
There is a special regime for approval of biosimilars, or biological medicinal products that are considered to be similar to a reference medicinal product but that do not meet the definition of a generic medicinal product, for example, because of differences in raw materials or manufacturing processes. For such products, the results of appropriate preclinical studies or clinical trials must be provided, and guidelines from the EMA detail the type of supplementary data to be provided for different types of biological product. There are no such guidelines for complex biological products, such as gene or cell therapy medicinal products, and so it is unlikely that biosimilars of those products will currently be approved in the EU. In the absence of dedicated guidelines, biosimilar applicants may seek scientific advice from the EMA to inform their non-clinical and clinical development strategies.
Orphan Medicinal Products
The EMA’s Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products, or COMP, may recommend orphan medicinal product designation to promote the development of products that are intended for the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of life-threatening or chronically debilitating conditions affecting not more than five in 10,000 persons in the EU. Additionally, designation is granted for products intended for the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of a life-threatening, seriously debilitating or serious and chronic condition when, without incentives, it is unlikely that sales of the product in the EU would be sufficient to justify the necessary investment in developing the medicinal product. The COMP may only recommend orphan medicinal product designation when the product in question offers a significant clinical benefit over existing approved products for the relevant indication or where no satisfactory method of diagnosis, prevention or treatment of such condition exists. Following a positive opinion by the COMP, the EC adopts a decision granting orphan status. The COMP will reassess orphan status in parallel with EMA review of an MAA and orphan status may be withdrawn at that stage if it no longer fulfills the orphan criteria (for instance because in the meantime a new product was approved for the indication and no convincing data are available to demonstrate a significant benefit over that product). Orphan medicinal product designation entitles a party to financial incentives such as reduction of fees or fee waivers and ten years of market exclusivity is granted following marketing authorization. During this period, the competent authorities may not accept or approve a similar medicinal product for the same approved therapeutic indication, unless (i) the second medicinal product is safer, more effective or otherwise clinically superior to the authorized orphan product; (ii) the marketing authorization holder for the authorized product consents to a second orphan medicinal product application; or (iii) the marketing authorization holder for the authorized product cannot supply enough orphan medicinal product. This period may be reduced to six years if the orphan medicinal product designation criteria are no longer met at the end of the fifth year of approval, including where it is shown that the product is sufficiently profitable not to justify maintenance of orphan designation. Patisiran, approved in the EU in August 2018, givosiran, approved in the EU in March 2020, lumasiran, approved in the EU in November 2020, as well as vutrisiran, approved in the EU in September 2022 and fitusiran have been granted orphan medicinal product designation.
Post-Approval Controls
The holder of a marketing authorization must establish and maintain a pharmacovigilance system and appoint an individual qualified person for pharmacovigilance who is responsible for oversight of that system. Key obligations include expedited reporting of suspected serious adverse reactions and submission of periodic safety update reports, or PSURs.
All new MAAs must include a risk management plan, or RMP, describing the risk management system that the company will put in place and documenting measures to prevent or minimize the risks associated with the product, including the assessment of the effectiveness of those activities and interventions. The regulatory authorities may also impose specific obligations as a condition of the marketing authorization. Such risk-minimization measures or post-authorization obligations may include additional safety monitoring, more frequent submission of PSURs, or the conduct of additional clinical trials or post-authorization safety studies. RMPs and PSURs are routinely available to third parties requesting access, subject to limited redactions.
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All advertising and promotional activities for the product must be consistent with the approved summary of product characteristics, and therefore all off-label promotion is prohibited. Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines is also prohibited in the EU. Although general requirements for advertising and promotion of medicinal products are established under EU directives, the details are governed by regulations in each member state and can differ from one country to another.
Manufacturing
Medicinal products may only be manufactured in the EU, or imported into the EU from another country, by the holder of a manufacturing authorization from the competent national authority. The manufacturer or importer must have a qualified person who is responsible for certifying that each batch of product has been manufactured in accordance with EU standards of cGMP and the requirements of the marketing authorization before releasing the product for commercial distribution in the EU or for use in a clinical trial. Manufacturing facilities are subject to periodic inspections by the competent authorities for compliance with cGMP. Testing and certification on importation is exempted where there exists a Mutual Recognition Agreement between the exporting country and the EU.
Pricing and Reimbursement
Governments in the EU influence the pricing of medicinal products through their pricing and reimbursement rules and control of national healthcare systems that fund a large part of the cost of those products to consumers. Some jurisdictions operate positive and negative list systems under which products may only be accessed in the respective national health systems once a reimbursement price has been agreed. To obtain reimbursement or pricing approval, some of these countries may require the completion of clinical trials that compare the cost-effectiveness of a particular product candidate to currently available therapies. Other member states allow companies to determine their own prices for medicines, but closely monitor and control company profits to manage overall healthcare expenditures. The downward pressure to contain healthcare costs in general, particularly prescription medicines, has intensified across EU member states. In addition to an assessment of cost-effectiveness, the national health systems may consider whether market access is affordable and the overall budgetary impact. As a result, increasingly high barriers are being erected to the entry of new products.
Hazardous Materials
Our research, development and manufacturing processes involve the controlled use of hazardous materials, chemicals and radioactive materials and produce waste products. We are subject to federal, state and local laws and regulations governing the use, manufacture, storage, handling and disposal of hazardous materials and waste products. We do not expect the cost of complying with these laws and regulations to be material.
Manufacturing
To date, we have manufactured limited supplies of drug substance for use in IND-enabling toxicology studies in animals and clinical trials at our own facilities, as well as patisiran formulated bulk drug product. We have contracted with several third-party contract manufacturing organizations, or CMOs, for the supply of drug substance, drug product and finished goods to meet our needs for preclinical toxicology studies, clinical and commercial supply. We expect to continue to rely on third-party CMOs for the supply of drug substance and drug product, including for AMVUTTRA, ONPATTRO, GIVLAARI and OXLUMO, as well as other product candidates, for the next several years, including the launch of our additional product candidates and to supply the needs of our collaborators. Commercial drugs will need to be manufactured in facilities, and by processes, that comply with FDA regulations and other federal, state and local regulations, as well as comparable foreign regulations.
In 2015, we amended our manufacturing services agreement with Agilent Technologies, Inc., or Agilent, to provide for Agilent to supply, subject to any conflicting obligations under our third-party agreements, a specified percentage of the active pharmaceutical ingredients, or API, required for certain of our products in clinical development, as well as other products the parties may agree upon in the future. In 2020, we amended our commercial supply agreement with Agilent to provide for Agilent to supply, subject to any conflicting obligations under our third-party agreements, a specified percentage of the API for certain of our commercial products. Under these agreements, we are required to provide forecasts for products on a quarterly basis, a portion of which will be considered a binding, firm order. Agilent is required to reserve sufficient capacity to ensure that it can supply products in the amounts specified under such firm orders, as well as up to a certain percentage of the remaining, non-binding portions of each forecast. Currently, Agilent is the sole manufacturer of the API for AMVUTTRA, ONPATTRO and GIVLAARI, and we have entered into manufacturing services agreements with Agilent for such supply of AMVUTTRA, ONPATTRO and GIVLAARI.
In 2012, we established a manufacturing facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts and have developed GMP capabilities and processes for the manufacture of patisiran formulated bulk drug product for late-stage clinical trial use and commercial supply. We expect to continue to manufacture commercial supply for formulated bulk drug product for ONPATTRO in this facility to support forecasted global demand.
During 2020, we completed construction and qualification of our GMP manufacturing facility in Norton, Massachusetts, where we currently manufacture drug substance for clinical programs and, eventually, intend to manufacture drug substance for
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commercial use. Since the commencement of GMP operations in December 2020, this facility has supported our manufacturing requirements for multiple of our early-stage programs and will continue to operate in this capacity.
In December 2025, we announced a planned expansion of our Norton, Massachusetts manufacturing facility to add capabilities related to our siRELIS™ (siRNA Enzymatic Ligation Synthesis) platform, a next-generation enzymatic ligation manufacturing platform that is designed to substantially increase capacity, reduce production costs and support future launches across our growing pipeline of potential new medicines.
We believe we have sufficient manufacturing capacity through our third-party CMOs and our current internal manufacturing facilities to meet our current, clinical development and commercial needs and the needs of our collaborators. We believe that the current supply capacity we have established externally, together with the internal capabilities we developed to support preclinical development, our existing facility for patisiran formulated bulk drug product and our Norton manufacturing facility, will be sufficient to meet our and our collaborators’ anticipated needs for the next several years. We monitor the capacity availability for the manufacture of drug substance and drug product and believe that our supply agreements with our CMOs and the lead times for new supply agreements would allow us to access additional capacity to meet our and our collaborators’ currently anticipated needs. We also believe that our products can be manufactured at a scale and with production and procurement efficiencies that will result in commercially competitive costs.
Commercial Operations
We have built and continue to scale global commercial operations designed to sequentially manage product launches across multiple geographies. Over the last several years, we have been building commercial capabilities and leveraging the internal knowledge we have accumulated as well as hiring world-class talent with broad industry and biotech experience to enable us to commercialize our products directly in key markets and with partners in smaller global markets. These commercial activities will continue to be dependent upon regulatory approvals and on agreements that we have made or may make in the future with strategic collaborators, currently as follows with respect to our first six approved products and our late-stage clinical programs:
•With respect to our ATTR amyloidosis franchise, we have global rights to develop and commercialize both AMVUTTRA and ONPATTRO;
•With respect to our Global Rare franchise, we have global rights to develop and commercialize GIVLAARI and OXLUMO;
•We granted MDCO global rights to develop and commercialize Leqvio; and
•We granted Sanofi global rights to develop and commercialize Qfitlia and any back-ups.
Throughout the development of our product candidates, we have remained focused on keeping patients at the center of everything we do. This patient focus has continued as we have transitioned into commercialization. AMVUTTRA, ONPATTRO, GIVLAARI and OXLUMO, as well as the other programs we are advancing to commercialization are focused on a broad range of disease areas and indications, and we have been executing on our strategy to make AMVUTTRA, ONPATTRO, GIVLAARI, OXLUMO and any future products successful, including through efforts to increase awareness and diagnosis. In addition, we are now advancing RNAi therapeutics beyond rare diseases across a broad range of disease areas and indications. Beginning with the approval of Leqvio, which was the first RNAi therapeutic approved for a prevalent disease (hypercholesterolemia), we believe the RNAi therapeutic profile supports the potential to address diseases ranging from rare, specialty areas, including CNS and hematological diseases, to more common diseases that impact public health, including hypertension, as well as other metabolic disorders where there remains significant unmet need.
We have expended significant effort to build and continue to strive to improve our goal of increasing access to medicines across the world. We have developed and succeeded in proactive market access strategies that include entering into value-based agreements. We believe our access strategies enable us to maximize the value of our transformative medicines while proactively managing global dynamics. Our ability to engage U.S. payers, including CMS (Medicare), certain state Medicaid programs as well as commercial payers, through VBAs has been instrumental in providing patients with rapid and favorable access to our medicines. Outside of the U.S. we believe we have made strong progress with patient access and have established availability of AMVUTTRA, ONPATTRO, OXLUMO and GIVLAARI, collectively, in more than 70 markets through direct reimbursement or in partnership with our distributors.
We have augmented the key components of our global commercial organization with a focus on successfully launching our commercially approved products around the world and preparing for the anticipated commercial launches of additional RNAi therapeutics, assuming successful development and regulatory approval. We are continuing to scale our global commercial organization and infrastructure to support our planned expansion to commercialize RNAi therapeutics in prevalent diseases. With respect to our approved products, throughout 2025, we continued to build our commercial capabilities and to expand these capabilities to additional countries globally. We believe we have built a focused commercial team with broad experience in marketing, sales, patient access, patient services, distribution and product reimbursement, and incorporating and enhancing appropriate quality systems, compliance policies, systems and procedures, as well as implementing internal systems and infrastructure to support global commercial sales, and the establishment of patient-focused programs.
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Leveraging our experience in hereditary ATTR polyneuropathy and our established commercial infrastructure, we expanded our customer-facing organization to support the launch of AMVUTTRA for the treatment of ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy in the U.S. Our launch strategy in the U.S. is based on three core pillars: health system set-up, which includes engagement and education across health systems to support appropriate adoption; access, focused on securing payer coverage and establishing reimbursement pathways to facilitate patient access; and treatment choice, emphasizing physician education and patient support programs to enable informed decision-making. Outside of the U.S., we have launched AMVUTTRA for ATTR-CM in Japan and Germany and we are advancing regulatory review and launch preparation activities for AMVUTTRA in additional markets globally.
Our Ethics & Compliance team has partnered with our Commercial and Medical Affairs leadership teams to maintain a robust compliance program designed to ensure that our promotional activities are consistent with the approved labeling for AMVUTTRA in each jurisdiction. This program includes proactive messaging and training, field monitoring and data analysis. For many territories/countries, we may also utilize strategic partners, distributors or contract sales forces to assist in the commercialization of our products. Our objective is to execute successful product launches and market expansions leveraging our experience with the launches of our approved products.
Medical Affairs
Our Medical Affairs organization facilitates communications with the medical and scientific community through the publication of clinical trial data and participation in medical congresses. It provides healthcare professionals with accurate information about our products, responds to medical inquiries, and generates data to demonstrate product value, cost-effectiveness and support for market access and reimbursement. Finally, our Medical Affairs organization generates real world evidence to address knowledge and data gaps. These capabilities are designed to enable increased patient diagnosis and improved patient care, including through support for independent third party genetic testing programs, including Alnylam Act. With a scalable framework for these capabilities, we believe our Medical Affairs organization continues to be well positioned to support potential launches of additional products and to expand our addressable indications to include prevalent diseases.
Human Capital Management
As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 2,500 full-time employees, of whom approximately 1,945 were employed in the U.S. and approximately 555 were employed outside of the U.S. None of our employees in the U.S. are represented by a labor union or covered by collective bargaining agreements, and we believe our relationship with our employees is good. During 2025, we enhanced our capabilities by adding approximately 270 new full-time employees. The new employees were hired to support a variety of functions and key initiatives, including extending our research, clinical and preclinical pipeline development, as well as our medical affairs and commercialization capabilities, with hires in commercial, compliance, legal, clinical development and operations, research, medical affairs, chemistry, manufacturing, and controls and other general and administrative functions. We expect to continue to add additional employees in 2026, with a focus on further enhancing our capabilities and increasing our capacities in these areas, as well as the planned expansion of our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Norton, Massachusetts and expanded geographic reach as we continue with the global launch of AMVUTTRA for the treatment of ATTR-CM and other products.
We consider the intellectual capital, skills and experience of our employees to be an essential driver of our business and key to our future prospects. We face intense competition for qualified individuals from numerous pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities, governmental entities and other research institutions, and we believe that our future success will depend in large part on our continued ability to attract and retain highly skilled employees. To attract qualified applicants to the Company and retain our employees, we offer a total rewards package consisting of base salary and cash target bonus, a comprehensive benefit package and equity compensation for every employee. Our total rewards package for each employee is based on geography, the position, peer group information and overall market competitiveness. Annual cash bonus targets are based on grade level and are communicated as a percentage of base salary. Equity compensation awards are based on grade level, geography, and performance. Any actual bonus payout is based solely on our performance against our corporate goals in the case of our executive leadership team and is based on a combination of individual performance and corporate performance (or regional or national commercial performance metrics, as applicable) in the case of all other employees.
As a global commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company, we value our talented and diverse workforce around the world and believe it contributes to our long-term success and ability to deliver innovative, safe and effective medicines to patients. We pride ourselves on an open culture in which we respect co-workers, value employees’ health and well-being, and foster professional development. We support employee growth and development in a variety of ways, including with group training, individual mentoring and coaching, conference attendance and tuition reimbursement. Our management conducts annual employee engagement surveys and reports to our board of directors on human capital management topics including corporate culture, employee development and retention, succession planning, and compensation and benefits. Similarly, our board of directors regularly provides input on important decisions relating to these matters, including with respect to employee compensation and benefits, succession planning, talent retention and development.
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Corporate Information
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a Delaware corporation that was formed in May 2003. Alnylam U.S., Inc., one of our wholly owned subsidiaries, is also a Delaware corporation that was formed in June 2002 as our initial corporate entity. Our principal executive office is located at 675 West Kendall Street, Henri A. Termeer Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, and our telephone number is (617) 551-8200.
Investor Information
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