RA Cap­i­tal, Canaan help in­fuse $50M in­to Al­ta-in­cu­bat­ed biotech bat­tling ac­quired re­sis­tance to TKIs

Since Gleevec was ap­proved in 2001, over 40 oth­er ty­ro­sine ki­nase in­hibitors have come on­to the mar­ket to treat var­i­ous types of can­cer. But with the pro­lif­er­a­tion of the class al­so came a surge of ac­quired re­sis­tance, where pa­tients’ tu­mors mu­tate around the drug tar­get and stop re­spond­ing to the ther­a­pies.

Tyra Bio, a Carls­bad, CA-based biotech “pur­pose built” to ad­dress that prob­lem, has just raised $50 mil­lion from Al­ta Part­ners, RA Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment, Box­er Cap­i­tal of Tavi­s­tock Group, and Canaan.

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