Interview: Mallinckrodt Deal Golden For Silence Therapeutics

The gene silencing specialist has signed a collaboration that CEO David Horn Solomon tells Scrip will help push Silence up among its peers in the RNAi space.

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After signing a deal with Mallinckrodt PLC on the first anniversary of becoming CEO of Silence Therapeutics PLC David Horn Solomon has been reflecting on how transformational the pact will be and the progress the UK-based RNA interference (RNAi) specialist has made in the last year.

The collaboration gives Mallinckrodt an exclusive worldwide license for one preclinical asset, SLN500, that targets a specific protein in the C3 complement pathway and an option for up to two additional assets with different complement protein targets

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