Alnylam closes $175M purchase of Merck subsidiary

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has closed its $175 million acquisition of Sirna Therapeutics Inc., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., it said Thursday. In January, Cambridge-based Alnylam (Nasdaq: ALNY), which develops therapies based on RNA interference, entered into a stock and cash deal to buy Merck’s rights and interest of Sirna. The price was far less than the $1.1 billion Merck paid for Sirna in 2006 for the San Francisco-based biotech, which is also focused on RNAi drugs. It was a move some considered…
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