Social Leadership

Alnylam has a deep commitment to social leadership that develops and delivers innovative solutions to impact patient health, science education, and the community.

Patient Health

Pool for Open Innovation Against Neglected Tropical Diseases

The Pool for Open Innovation against Neglected Tropical Diseases facilitates access to the compounds, technologies, and expertise that will help organizations conduct research on treatments for neglected diseases more efficiently and effectively. The Pool for Open Innovation makes thousands of patents and associated know-how accessible to qualified researchers working on drugs for neglected tropical diseases, allowing these researchers to take advantage of hundreds of millions of dollars of value accumulated in companies and universities. Alnylam included over 1500 issued and pending patents, and all "fundamental" RNAi technology is available for license.

Science Education

Nature Education/Scitable

Alnylam is a founding sponsor of Scitable, Nature Education's free online science library for the global educational community.

http://www.nature.com/scitable

Scientist in the Classroom

Alnylam is a founding sponsor of the Biotechnology Institute's "Scientists in the Classroom" initiative and has committed to support this program through The International BioGENEius Challenge.

http://www.biotechinstitute.org/programs/9