Kymera Therapeutics Presents at Citi's 2025 Biopharma Back to School Conference

Kymera Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company, presented at Citi's 2025 Biopharma Back to School Conference. The company's CEO, Nello Mainolfi, discussed the evolution of the company's platform for targeted protein degradation (TPD), highlighting the success of several assets and partnerships. Mainolfi emphasized the importance of attributes such as high potency, selectivity, and pharmacokinetics in identifying potential assets for the platform.

Kymera Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:KYMR) presented at Citi's 2025 Biopharma Back to School Conference, offering insights into the company's platform for targeted protein degradation (TPD) and its pipeline. CEO Nello Mainolfi discussed the evolution of Kymera's platform, highlighting its success with several assets and partnerships.

Mainolfi emphasized that Kymera's platform focuses on pathways that have been validated but have undrugged proteins. The company's strategy involves identifying targets that have not been fully drugged and have the potential to affect millions of patients. The platform's evolution has led to improved capabilities in finding small molecules that combine with undrugged proteins and designing highly active, orally available degraders.

Kymera's platform has evolved over the years, with the company now able to find small molecules that combine with undrugged proteins in a highly specific manner, design highly active equimolar, orally available degraders, and translate this into the clinic with high fidelity. The company's second-generation degraders, such as 621 and 579, are part of its pipeline for targets like STAT6 and IRAK5.

Mainolfi also discussed the use of AI and machine learning to identify targets and small molecules. He noted that the company continues to innovate to stay at the forefront of drug development. Kymera's platform has shown success in preclinical studies, with 621, a first-in-class STAT6 degrader, demonstrating the ability to degrade STAT6 at very low doses and block Th2 cytokines as effectively as upstream biologics.

Kymera is currently in a Phase Ib study in moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis patients with 621. The company plans to initiate Phase II studies in AD and asthma in the fourth quarter of 2025 and the first quarter of 2026, respectively. These studies will involve dose-ranging to determine the level of degradation required for maximal benefit in patients.

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