The RNA inhibitor olpasiran significantly reduces a type of “bad cholesterol” that’s associated with a high risk of cardiovascular events, according to results from an analysis by a Mount Sinai ...

An ribonucleic acid (RNA) inhibitor, olpasiran (Amgen), which has shown it can lower lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] levels in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD), has demonstrated in a phase 2 ...

Amgen is planning to push its olpasiran candidate for reducing lipoprotein(a) into phase 3 as quickly as possible as it tries to catch up with rival programmes at Novartis. The US biotech has just ...

The study reported that higher doses of olpasiran lowered the type of cholesterol called lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] by more than 95% in participants with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease ...