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Alnylam Announces Promotion of Dr. Akshay Vaishnaw to President
– Consistent Scientific Leadership Focused on Sustainable Innovation – CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), the
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n– Consistent Scientific Leadership Focused on Sustainable Innovation –\n\n CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nAlnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), the leading RNAi therapeutics company, today announced that Akshay Vaishnaw, M.D., Ph.D. has been appointed President. Dr. Vaishnaw joined Alnylam in 2006 as Vice President, Clinical Research with roles of increasing responsibility, ultimately serving as President of Research and Development (R&D). In this new role, Dr. Vaishnaw will serve as the key scientific leader of Alnylam and will advance the Company’s R&D strategy focused on sustainable innovation.\n\n“Akshay has been at the helm of driving the science and innovation at Alnylam for the past 16 years, and that effort has yielded an entirely new class of medicines. In this newly expanded role, Akshay will become the Company’s key scientific leader, focused on advancing our R&D engine which is the lifeblood of how we have and will continue to drive our research and development programs into transformative medicines,” said Yvonne Greenstreet, MBChB, Chief Executive Officer at Alnylam. “This promotion is a testament that science will remain at the heart of our company and continue to enable us to deliver long term value. We are fortunate to have such a talented and capable scientific leader helping us achieve our Alnylam P5x25 goals.”\n\n“It has been the pleasure of my career to support Alnylam becoming a multi-product, global organization with a deep and rich pipeline,” said Dr. Vaishnaw. “We are excited about the opportunity for RNAi therapeutics in rare and common diseases utilizing liver and extrahepatic delivery to realize the greatest potential for this new class of medicines in human health. I’m thrilled to continue delivering sustainable innovation and participate in building Alnylam for the future.”\n\nDr. Vaishnaw joined Alnylam in 2006 as Vice President, Clinical Research and has then subsequently served in various R&D roles with increasing responsibility. Dr. Vaishnaw most recently served as the President of R&D. Prior to 2006, he was at Biogen as Senior Director, Translational Medicine. Dr. Vaishnaw received his M.D. from the University of Wales College of Medicine, U.K., and Ph.D. from the University of London, U.K., in Molecular Immunology. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, U.K. Dr. Vais...