Dicerna Announces Novo Nordisk’s Nomination of First Candidate for Development Under RNAi Discovery and Development Agreement and Additional Milestone Achievement

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: DRNA) (the “Company” or “Dicerna”), a leading developer of investigational ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) therapeutics, today announced Novo Nordisk A/S (“Novo”) has nominated its first candidate under the existing agreement between the two companies for the discovery and development of novel therapies for the treatment of liver-related cardiometabolic diseases using Dicerna’s proprietary GalXC™ RNAi platform technology.

“The past 12 months since closing our agreement with Novo have been extremely productive, with the identification and validation of multiple candidates under this highly collaborative relationship,” said Bob D. Brown, Executive Vice President and Head of Research and Development at Dicerna. “Tha