Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Appointment of Alice T. Shaw to Its Board of Directors

Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on developing new standards of care for the frontline treatment of patients with hematologic malignancies. The Company is advancing Tamibarotene, a selective retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARα), agonist for which the Company is conducting SELECT-MDS-1, a Phase III clinical trial evaluating tamibarotene in combination with azacitidine in a genomically defined subset of patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (HR-MDS), and for which it is conducting SELECT-AML-1, a randomized Phase II clinical trial evaluating tamibarotene in combination with venetoclax and azacitidine in a genomically defined subset of newly diagnosed patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Its other assets include SY-2101 and SY-5609. The Company is seeking out-licensing opportunities for the further development of SY-5609, its highly selective and potent inhibitor of cyclin dependent kinase 7 (CDK7).