DRNA Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 28, 2021

Registration No. 333-234572

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-234572

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

20-5993609

(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

75 Hayden Ave

Lexington, Massachusetts

(781) 994-0300

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Bob D. Brown

President

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

75 Hayden Avenue

Lexington, Massachusetts 02421

(617) 621-8097

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Copies to:

William H. Aaronson

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

450 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10017

(212) 450-4000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the above referenced registration    statement.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment (this “Amendment”) relates to the following Registration Statements on Form S-3 (collectively, the “Registration Statements”) filed by Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Dicerna”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”):

On November 17, 2021, Dicerna entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Novo Nordisk A/S, a Danish aktieselskab (“Novo”), and NNUS New Research, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Novo (“Purchaser”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, on December 28, 2021, Purchaser merged with and into Dicerna with Dicerna surviving the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Novo.

As a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, Dicerna has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. In accordance with the undertakings made by Dicerna in the Registration Statements to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering, Dicerna hereby removes and withdraws from registration any and all securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statements that remain unsold as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statements to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Lexington, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on December 28, 2021. No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statements in reliance on Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.