Kymera in the News

The Boston Business Journal highlighted Kymera’s recent move to enable the expansion of our innovative R&D capabilities and support our growing team’s vibrant on-site presence as we work toward delivering life-changing medicines to patients.

CEO Nello Mainolfi talked to Scrip about Kymera’s pipeline expansion, which will prioritize oral targeted protein degraders in immunology, including two new assets moving into the clinic.

Looking to further expand the reach of protein degraders beyond cancer, Kymera Therapeutics revealed two new programs Thursday morning that it hopes will compete with some of the hottest immunology drugs on the market.

Through a pair of recent clinical milestones, Kymera Therapeutics continues to cash in on its up-to-$2 billion collaboration with Sanofi to develop first-in-class targeted protein degradation (TPD) therapies for patients with immune-inflammatory diseases.

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The kinase IRAK4 is a crucial regulator of signalling pathways that control innate immunity. Inhibitors of its kinase activity have been developed for autoimmune diseases but have not shown strong efficacy. Now, in Nature Medicine, Ackerman et al. describe an IRAK4 protein degrader and report encouraging preliminary results in patients with chronic inflammatory skin diseases.

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Kymera’s KT-474 is the first oral degrader to demonstrate activity in clinical trials outside cancer. Sanofi recently started a Ph. II trial with the molecule in AD, restoring life to IRAK4 as an immunology target.

Kymera Therapeutics recently shared promising results from the phase 1 clinical trial of its lead program, KT-474, marking a significant milestone in the field of targeted protein degradation (TPD).

Kymera Therapeutics’ degrader KT-474 has shown promise for treating two inflammatory skin conditions in an early clinical trial. The success suggests that these compounds could be used to treat nonlethal, chronic conditions, where there is a high bar for tolerability.