Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(Nasdaq: ALNY) announced today a license and collaboration agreement to discover and develop peptide-siRNA conjugates to create multiple opportunities to deliver RNAi therapeutics to tissues outside the liver.
Japanese biopharmaceutical firm PeptiDream has partnered with Merck (MSD) to discover and develop new peptide therapeutics which could neutralise SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19.
PeptiDream has signed a deal with fellow Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi to discover and develop a series of blood-brain barrier (BBB) penetrating peptide drug conjugates.