FGFR4

aTyr Pharma Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results and Provides Corporate Update

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

SAN DIEGO, March 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- aTyr Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIFE) (“aTyr” or the “Company”), a clinical stage biotechnology company engaged in the discovery and development of first-in-class medicines from its proprietary tRNA synthetase platform, today announced fourth quarter and full year 2023 results and provided a corporate update.

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  • SAN DIEGO, March 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- aTyr Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIFE) (“aTyr” or the “Company”), a clinical stage biotechnology company engaged in the discovery and development of first-in-class medicines from its proprietary tRNA synthetase platform, today announced fourth quarter and full year 2023 results and provided a corporate update.
  • Based on current enrollment projections, the Company anticipates completing enrollment in the study in the second quarter of 2024.
  • Interested parties may access the call by registering here in order to obtain a dial in, personalized passcode and webcast information.
  • Links to a live audio webcast and replay may be accessed on the aTyr website Events page at: http://investors.atyrpharma.com/events-and-webcasts .

aTyr Pharma Announces Third Quarter 2022 Results and Provides Corporate Update

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- aTyr Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIFE), a biotherapeutics company engaged in the discovery and development of first-in-class medicines from its proprietary tRNA synthetase platform, today announced third quarter 2022 results and provided a corporate update.

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  • Ended the third quarter 2022 with $79.6 million in cash, restricted cash, cash equivalents and investments.
  • SAN DIEGO, Nov. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- aTyr Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIFE), a biotherapeutics company engaged in the discovery and development of first-in-class medicines from its proprietary tRNA synthetase platform, today announced third quarter 2022 results and provided a corporate update.
  • Announced the publication of results of the Phase 1b/2a study of efzofitimod in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis in the peer-reviewed medical journal CHEST.
  • G&A Expenses: General and administrative expenses were $3.6 million for the third quarter of 2022.

Tyra Biosciences to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

Webcasts of the fireside chats will be available via the For Investors page on the Investor section of the TYRA website.

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  • Webcasts of the fireside chats will be available via the For Investors page on the Investor section of the TYRA website.
  • Tyra Biosciences, Inc. is a precision oncology company focused on developing purpose-built therapies to overcome tumor resistance and improve outcomes for patients with cancer.
  • TYRA-200 is an FGFR1/2/3 inhibitor with potency against FGFR2 fusions, molecular brake mutations and gatekeeper resistance that TYRA is developing initially in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
  • TYRA is also targeting achondroplasia and other FGFR3-related skeletal dysplasias and FGFR4 and RET (REarranged during Transfection kinase) driven cancers.

Tyra Biosciences Announces Planned Chief Financial Officer Transition

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tyra Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: TYRA), a precision oncology company focused on developing purpose-built therapies to overcome tumor resistance and improve outcomes for patients with cancer, today announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Esther van den Boom, will be stepping down to transition into an advisory role at the end of 2022. TYRA also announced that Alan Fuhrman has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer effective January 1, 2023, and Ms. van den Boom will support the transition. 

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  • CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tyra Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: TYRA), a precision oncology company focused on developing purpose-built therapies to overcome tumor resistance and improve outcomes for patients with cancer, today announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Esther van den Boom, will be stepping down to transition into an advisory role at the end of 2022.
  • TYRA also announced that Alan Fuhrman has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer effective January 1, 2023, and Ms. van den Boom will support the transition.
  • Prior to that, Mr. Fuhrman served as the Chief Financial Officer of Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from December 2017 through June 2020.
  • "It has been my privilege to serve as Chief Financial Officer of TYRA since shortly after the company's inception," said Ms. van den Boom.

aTyr Pharma Announces Research Collaboration with Dualsystems Biotech AG to Identify 10 New Therapeutic Targets

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

We look forward to discoveries from this collaboration as a way to potentially accelerate drug discovery efforts and identify new drugs from our platform.

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  • We look forward to discoveries from this collaboration as a way to potentially accelerate drug discovery efforts and identify new drugs from our platform.
  • aTyr intends to interrogate the interaction between this fragment of AARS and FGFR4 to determine potential therapeutic indications.
  • aTyr is a biotherapeutics company engaged in the discovery and development of first-in-class medicines from its proprietary tRNA synthetase platform.
  • Dualsystems Biotech is a privately held biotechnology company established in 2006 as a spin-off from the University Zurich, Switzerland.

Tyra Biosciences to Participate at September 2022 Investor Conferences

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Thursday, September 8, 2022

CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tyra Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: TYRA), a precision oncology company focused on developing purpose-built therapies to overcome tumor resistance and improve outcomes for patients with cancer, today announced that management will participate at the following investor conferences:

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  • CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tyra Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: TYRA), a precision oncology company focused on developing purpose-built therapies to overcome tumor resistance and improve outcomes for patients with cancer, today announced that management will participate at the following investor conferences:
    Tyra Biosciences, Inc. is a precision oncology company focused on developing purpose-built therapies to overcome tumor resistance and improve outcomes for patients with cancer.
  • Leveraging SNP, TYRA is developing a pipeline of selective inhibitors of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFR), which are altered in approximately 7% of all cancers.
  • TYRA-200 is an FGFR2 inhibitor that TYRA is developing initially in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
  • TYRA is also targeting achondroplasia and other FGFR3-related skeletal dysplasias and FGFR4 and REarranged during Transfection kinase (RET) related cancers.

aTyr Pharma Announces Second Quarter 2022 Results and Provides Corporate Update

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Monday, August 15, 2022

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- aTyr Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIFE), a biotherapeutics company engaged in the discovery and development of first-in-class medicines from its proprietary tRNA synthetase platform, today announced second quarter 2022 results and provided a corporate update.

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  • Ended the second quarter 2022 with $89.3 million in cash, restricted cash, cash equivalents and investments.
  • SAN DIEGO, Aug. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- aTyr Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIFE), a biotherapeutics company engaged in the discovery and development of first-in-class medicines from its proprietary tRNA synthetase platform, today announced second quarter 2022 results and provided a corporate update.
  • The company is on track to enroll the first patient in the study in the third quarter of 2022.
  • G&A Expenses: General and administrative expenses were $3.4 million for the second quarter of 2022.

Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 4 (FGFR4) Antagonist Market Insights 2022: Coverage of 15 Companies and Respective Pipeline Drugs - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

This Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 4 (FGFR4) Antagonist - Pipeline Insight, 2022 report provides comprehensive insights about 15+ companies and 15+ pipeline drugs in Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 4 (FGFR4) Antagonist pipeline landscape.

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  • This Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 4 (FGFR4) Antagonist - Pipeline Insight, 2022 report provides comprehensive insights about 15+ companies and 15+ pipeline drugs in Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 4 (FGFR4) Antagonist pipeline landscape.
  • The companies and academics are working to assess challenges and seek opportunities that could influence R&D Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 4 (FGFR4) Antagonist.
  • Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 4 (FGFR4) Antagonist: Therapeutic Assessment
    This segment of the report provides insights about the Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 4 (FGFR4) Antagonist drugs segregated based on following parameters that define the scope of the report, such as:
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  • The companies which have their Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 4 (FGFR4) Antagonist drug candidates in the most advanced stage, i.e Phase III include, Helsinn.

aTyr Pharma Announces FGFR4 as Receptor Target for AARS tRNA Synthetase Fragment

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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

SAN DIEGO, June 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- aTyr Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIFE), a biotherapeutics company engaged in the discovery and development of first-in-class medicines from its proprietary tRNA synthetase biology platform, today announced that new findings from its platform will be presented in a poster today at the Keystone Symposia Tissue Fibrosis and Repair: Mechanisms, Human Disease and Therapeutics in Keystone, CO.

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  • The poster presents findings from aTyrs innovative tRNA synthetase platform, whereby selected fragments of Alanyl-tRNA Synthetase (AARS) and Aspartyl-tRNA Synthetase (DARS) were found to bind to the surface of specific human cell types via novel binding partners.
  • Additionally, the target receptor of the fragment AARS-1 was identified as fibroblast growth factor receptor 4 (FGFR4), indicating that AARS-1 may have therapeutic potential in fibrosis, inflammation and cancer.
  • The target receptor identified for the fragment AARS-1, FGFR4, is involved in many cellular processes including cell proliferation, differentiation and tissue repair.
  • aTyr is a biotherapeutics company engaged in the discovery and development of first-in-class medicines from its proprietary tRNA synthetase biology platform.

Kinnate Biopharma Inc. to Present Preclinical Data on its FGFR Inhibitor Candidate at the ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

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Wednesday, January 19, 2022

These findings will be presented during a poster session at the ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium taking place in San Francisco, January 20-22, 2022.

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  • These findings will be presented during a poster session at the ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium taking place in San Francisco, January 20-22, 2022.
  • Oncogenic FGFR (FGFR1, FGFR2, FGFR3, and FGFR4) gene alterations are observed in approximately 7% of all human cancers.
  • KIN-3248 has been evaluated across wild-type FGFR family members and clinically relevant fusions and kinase domain resistance mutations in vitro.
  • Additional information on the ASCO GI Cancers Symposium is available through the conference website at: https://conferences.asco.org/gi .