About Pionyr Immunotherapeutics

Pionyr Immunotherapeutics is a clinical stage company developing cancer immunotherapies that target the tumor microenvironment to enhance the body’s antitumor immunity. The company’s approach, Myeloid Tuning™, is designed to enhance the immune system’s anti-tumor response by altering, or “tuning”, the myeloid infiltrate of the tumor microenvironment with high specificity and for very specific purposes.

The company was founded in 2015 by Max Krummel, Ph.D., a professor at University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF), who has been making significant strides in immuno-oncology since the mid-1990s. Dr. Krummel is the co-inventor of YERVOY® (ipilimumab), the first checkpoint inhibitor, which was approved in 2011 to treat melanoma. Pionyr has exclusively licensed technology from UCSF based on Dr. Krummel’s work.

Pionyr’s investors include Gilead, New Enterprise Associates, OrbiMed, SV Health Investors, Sofinnova Investments, Vida Ventures, Osage University Partners, Mission Bay Capital, and Trinitas Ventures.

Pionyr’s Path

2015

Pionyr Founded

2015

$1.3M Series A Funding

2016

$8M Series A-1 OrbiMed, SV, Osage, Mission Bay

2016

4 TME-Targeted mABs in Process

2016

Located at MBC BioLabs

2017

$69M Series B NEA, Sofinnova, Vida, Trinitas + Prior Investors

2018

New Labs at Genesis Towers

2020

Gilead Investment

2020

PY314 and PY159 into P1

 

2021

Pionyr/Lonza Partnership

Pionyr's Third Program

 

2022

PY314 Ph1b Expansion Cohorts

 

Management

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Steven P. James / CEO

 

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Janet Awaya / Senior Director, Finance

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Kevin Baker, PhD / Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer

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Tony Brew / Senior Director, Information Technology

Marc Chamberlain photo

Marc Chamberlain, MD / Executive Medical Director

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Davide Edghill / Senior Director, Data Management

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Larry Garrido / Senior Director, Facilities Operations

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Evan Greger, MBA, MSc / Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer

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Lynnae Jackson, MBA / Vice President, Clinical Operations

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Alicia Levey, PhD / President and Chief Operating Officer

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Yunfeng Li, PhD / Senior Director, Biostatistics

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Linda Liang, PhD / Vice President, Protein Sciences

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Isabel Luther / VP, Clinical Operations

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Monte Montgomery / Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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Kristen Pierce, PhD / VP, Translational Medicine

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Leonard Reyno, MD / President, R&D and Chief Medical Officer

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Lisa Stemmerich, MBA / Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer

Board of Directors

J.C. Lopez  / NEA

Rishi Gupta, JD / OrbiMed

Steven P. James / CEO, Pionyr Immunotherapeutics

Regina Salvat, PhD / Sofinnova

Mike Ross, PhD / SV Health Investors

Investors

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Partners

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