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Novartis Inks World-First Pact With NHS England For Inclisiran

Tackling Challenge Of Cardiovascular Disease

 
• By Kevin Grogan

The innovative collaboration should accelerate access to the first-in-class cholesterol lowering drug acquired with The Medicines Company buy.

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Novartis and NHS team up for inclisiran • Source: Shutterstock

Novartis AG has unveiled what it claims is a world-first pact with NHS England that could give at-risk patients speedy access to the Swiss giant's investigational gene silencing cholesterol lower inclisiran, acquired through its recent $9.7bn purchase of The Medicines Company.

Inclisiran, a first-in-class small-interfering RNA (siRNA) drug that inhibits synthesis of PCSK9 which is expected to be a key growth...

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