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Alnylam CEO John Maraganore – An Interview With “The Pink Sheet” DAILY (Part 1 of 2)

The RNAi-pioneering biotech is sitting in a different position than it was a year ago, about to take its lead candidate into pivotal studies and with a new partnership with Arrowhead and $87 million in proceeds from one of the largest follow-on public offerings in recent memory by a biotech firm.

About 18 months after having to argue that the field of RNA-interference therapeutics was still a viable R&D arena, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. CEO John Maraganore remains on the job but is sitting in a different place. The decision by Rocheto exit RNAi drug development, and a longstanding collaboration with Alnylam, just months after Novartis AG and Pfizer Inc. also left the field, meant an uncertain future for the Cambridge, Mass.-based pioneer in RNAi.

But Maraganore determinedly told anyone who would listen that, in fact, it was “springtime for RNAi.” In a lengthy interview with “The Pink Sheet” DAILY, he said the intellectual property...

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