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Alnylam Offering Value-Based Deals In EU For Breakthrough RNAi Drug Onpattro

 
• By Sten Stovall

Alnylam's president tells Scrip the RNAi pioneer is offering outcomes-based contracts for its first ever product to payers in the European Union following Onpattro's approval there in August. He also says payers "must pay for innovation."

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Alnylam offering value- or outcomes-based Onpattro contracts linked to improvements. • Source: Shutterstock

Mirroring its approach in the US, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. is offering outcomes-based contracts for its small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutic Onpattro (patisiran) in the rare disease of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis, and has already launched the gene-silencing drug in Germany, the group's president Barry Greene told Scrip.

"We like to be as innovative on the commercial side as we have been on the R&D side

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