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RNAi药物或将成为未来医药市场新贵

  1. Allied
  2. RNAi
  3. 医药产业

来源:生物谷 2014-09-15 15:55

最近,著名市场研究公司Allied发表报告称,未来RNA药物将呈现高速增长趋势,到2020年,这类药物销售额将有望突破12亿美元,平均年增长率将保持在28.4%左右。

2014年9月15日讯 /生物谷BIOON/ --最近,著名市场研究公司Allied发表报告称,未来RNA药物将呈现高速增长趋势,到2020年,这类药物销售额将有望突破12亿美元,平均年增长率将保持在28.4%左右。这一报告一经出炉,立刻引起了业界、投资者和科学家们的关注。

Alliedg公司指出,随着近年来载药系统技术研究的突破,困扰RNA药物的最大难题正在被克服。因此科学家有望利用RNAi的方法来治疗包括癌症在内的众多疾病。RNA干扰(RNAi)是由Andrew Fire和Craig Mello在1998年提出的,两人也因此分享了2006年诺贝尔奖。

RNAi现象主要表现为mRNA在细胞质中被切割破坏,从而实现特定基因在转录后水平上的沉默。而最近美国NIH和FDA联合资助用于治疗埃博拉病毒的RNAi疗法也被认为是针对RNAi疗法的一个积极信号。

此外,反义RNA技术也是另一种极具潜力的RNA疗法。Isis Pharmaceuticals目前正在进行两项反义RNA药物的研究。Allied公司在报告中还提到,科学家认为肝脏是最适宜接受RNAi疗法的器官,这个器官表面布满了直径在100nm左右的微孔,能够保证装载了RNA药物的脂类纳米颗粒通过。

另外,Allied相信,RNA药物将在癌症治疗中扮演重要角色。不过一些科学家指出,目前还没有一种RNA抗癌药物进入临床三期,因此等待RNA药物在对抗癌症方面大放异彩尚不显示。

尽管Allied公司对RNA药物的未来表现出强烈的信心,另一些人则表示出谨慎的态度。最近诺华公司决定退出这一领域无疑代表了一些企业对RNA药物市场的态度。(生物谷Bioon.com)

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详细英文报道:

Market research firm Allied Market Research forecasts that RNA-based therapies will generate $1.2 billion in revenue by 2020, a compounded annual growth rate of 28.4%, according to a recent report. The prediction implies successful commercialization--a long-awaited milestone for the nascent RNA interference (RNAi) treatment paradigm, which shows plenty of promise, but has produced no approved therapies so far, in large part due to drug delivery challenges.

But Allied Market Research points to large-scale public and private funding, the development of novel delivery technologies, and anticipated savings to the healthcare system as drivers of the RNA therapeutics market. It's the gene-silencing potential of RNA therapies that is appealing to pharma and biotech companies, Allied says.

RNAi accomplishes gene silencing by cleaving messenger RNA within cells' cytoplasm, preventing gene transcription from taking place. The naturally occurring paradigm's discovery in 1998 earned scientists Andrew Fire and Craig Mello a Nobel Prize in 2006.

Allied says funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and Tekmira's Fast Track designation from the FDA of its RNAi therapeutic for Ebola are also encouraging signs.

In addition to RNAi, RNA antisense is another treatment paradigm in the RNA therapies market, Allied says. Isis Pharmaceuticals ($ISIS) has commercialized two RNA antisense products. They do not face the same delivery challenges as RNAi therapies, which are forecast to garner the most interest in the future.

Allied expects oncology to become the largest market segment for the RNA-based treatments. But The Scientist points out that none of the RNAi candidates have yet made it to Phase III trials. Dicerna's treatment for multiple myeloma and lymphomas is in Phase I and Tekmira recently launched a Phase I/II trial for treating hepatocellular cancer. But the most ambitious company is Israel's Silenseed because it is targeting the notorious oncogene K-RAS, says The Scientist. The company's delivery approach is striking; it aims to inject RNAi encased in a millimeter-scale matrix directly into the tumor.

The liver is the most promising organ for RNAi uptake and treatments because it has 100-nanometer pores that are large enough for lipid nanoparticles containing RNAi to sneak through, says The Scientist. The nanoparticles are necessary to protect the RNAi, which degrades if delivered directly into the bloodstream. Alnylam ($ALNY) is the leader in the liver arena, with 15 RNAi treatments in development, including Phase III candidate Patisiran.

Many companies use lipid nanoparticles to deliver RNAi to the correct site in the cell, but Alnylam attaches the molecules to a sugar molecule, enabling subcutaneous (as opposed to intravenous) delivery. A third delivery strategy is to transport the RNAi in a viral vector, The Scientist explains.

Following Novartis' ($NVS) April decision to shutter its once-ambitious RNAi research efforts and a slump in biotech stocks, confidence in RNAi research was low, leading Alnylam COO Barry Greene to tell FierceDrugDelivery that Big Pharma "has never been able to innovate" and "has been a miserable barometer of high impact technologies." The Allied Market Research forecast should add to the treatment's paradigm's recent momentum. It has already generated a Nobel Prize, and if commercialization occurs, RNAi-drug dollars will be generated as well.

 

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