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Isis Pharma (ISIS) Announces Publication of Volanesorsen Phase 2 Data in NEJM

July 29, 2015 5:07 PM EDT

Isis Pharma (NASDAQ: ISIS) and Akcea Therapeutics, its wholly owned subsidiary, announced that The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has published positive clinical results from a Phase 2 clinical study evaluating volanesorsen (formerly ISIS-APOCIIIRx) in patients with very high to severely high triglycerides. This publication follows the December 2014 publication in the NEJM of the positive Phase 2 results from a clinical study of volanesorsen in patients with familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS).1 Volanesorsen is part of Isis' lipid franchise, which is being developed and commercialized by Akcea Therapeutics.

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