idya-8k_20200317.htm

Delaware

001-38915

47-4268251

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South San Francisco, California 94080
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Title of each class	Trading Symbol	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share	IDYA	The Nasdaq Global Select Market

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Effective as of March 11, 2020, IDEAYA Biosciences, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Clinical Trial Collaboration and Supply Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Pfizer Inc. (“Pfizer”), pursuant to which the Company and Pfizer will collaborate on a portion of the Company’s Phase 1/2 study in Metastatic Uveal Melanoma (MUM) and other solid tumors harboring activating GNAQ or GNA11 hotspot mutations, in each case pertaining to the clinical evaluation of the Company’s IDE196 compound in combination with Pfizer’s MEK inhibitor, binimetinib (the “Combination Study”). Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company is the sponsor of the Combination Study and the Company will provide the Company’s IDE196 compound and will pay for the costs of the Combination Study. Pfizer will provide binimetinib for the Combination Study at no cost to the Company. The Company and Pfizer will jointly own clinical data from the Combination Study and all inventions relating to the combined use of IDE196 and binimetinib. The Company and Pfizer will form a joint development committee responsible for coordinating all regulatory and other activities under the Agreement.

The foregoing is only a summary description of the terms of the Amendment, does not purpose to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Agreement, which will be filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2020.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	IDEAYA BIOSCIENCES, INC.

Date: March 17, 2020	By:	/s/ Yujiro Hata
		Yujiro Hata
		President and Chief Executive Officer