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Deal Watch: Lilly Partners With Avidity On RNA Medicines That Can Target Outside The Liver

 
• By Joseph Haas, Alexandra Shimmings, and Ian Haydock

Privately held Avidity’s platform creates antibody-oligonucleotide conjugate therapies, which build on RNAi approaches. Basilea/Forge collaboration seeks to create novel antibiotics using metalloenzyme chemistry.

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Eli Lilly & Co. and Avidity Biosciences Inc. unveiled a partnership April 22 to develop novel RNA-based medicines...

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