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The Plastic Problem

August 6, 2019

The oil and gas industry is ramping up petrochemicals -building blocks of plastics -right as the global outcry intensifies over plastic waste. America is worldwide for petrochemical buildout, because its plentiful oil and gas supplies have produced cheap petrochemical feedstocks, or raw material.

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Akcea Therapeutics

Akcea Therapeutics is a development and commercialization company focused on helping patients with serious cardiometabolic lipid disorders. Our priority is to drive clinical program execution, understand patient and physician needs, prepare the market, create market access, and commercialize our products on a global basis. We are driven by knowing that patients depend on us. An affiliate of Ionis Pharmaceuticals and based in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akcea was founded with a robust portfolio of development-stage drugs covering multiple targets and disease states using advanced antisense therapeutics. Akcea is derived from the Greek word for value and worth. Something that has akcea is not common, but precious and rare. Our name supports the value we are creating for physicians, patients and their families, and other key stakeholders as we seek to commercialize a robust portfolio of development-stage, advanced, antisense therapies for serious cardiometabolic lipid disor

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Infographic | January 17, 2020

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Infographic | February 28, 2020

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The Plastic Problem