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• Akcea retains exclusive rights to develop and commercialize AKCEA-APOCIII-LRx following Novartis’ decision for not exercising the option
• In 2017- Novartis signed an option agreement with Akcea for two antisense therapies AKCEA-APO(a)-LRx and AKCEA-APOCIII-LRx for cardiovascular disease. In Feb 2019 Novartis exercised its option for AKCEA-APO(a)-LRx due to strategic portfolio reason - further decided not to exercise option for second therapy i.e. AKCEA-APOCIII-LRx
• AKCEA-APOCIII-LRx is ligand conjugated antisense (LICA) drug co-developed by Akcea and Ionis using ionis’ advanced LIgand Conjugated Antisense (LICA) technology platform and is currently in P-II for patients with hypertriglyceridemia and CVD with expected results in H1’20

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