Pfizer, Sanofi, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Co and Amgen are in line for exits after the immunotherapy developer filed to go public.

US-based immunotherapy developer Kymera Therapeutics has filed for a $100m initial public offering that could enable pharmaceutical firms Merck & Co, Amgen, Pfizer, Sanofi and Vertex Pharmaceuticals to exit.

Incubated by venture capital firm Atlas Venture, Kymera is working on small molecule drugs intended to combat cancer and inflammatory diseases by degrading disease-causing proteins.

Part of the IPO proceeds will advance KT-474, which is being developed to treat rheumatoid arthritis, an inflammatory skin disease called HS and a skin…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.