Professor Bruce Beutler Joins aTyr Pharma Inc.'s Scientific Advisory Board

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- aTyr Pharma announced today that Bruce Beutler, M.D., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Genetics at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), has joined their scientific advisory board. An elected member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, Dr. Beutler was awarded the 2009 Albany Medical Center Prize, one of the largest and most prestigious awards for medicine in the US, in recognition of his contributions to our understanding of the immune system and the translation of that research into therapies that have reduced suffering for millions of patients with inflammatory disease. Dr. Beutler is the inventor of Enbrel(R), the prototype for the most successful class of biotherapeutics ever developed: recombinant inhibitors of TNF that are used to treat inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.

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