Kura Oncology Receives $30 Million Development Milestone Payment in Ziftomenib AML Program with Kyowa Kirin

On October 24, 2025 Kura Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq: KURA), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to realizing the promise of precision medicines for the treatment of cancer, reported receipt of a $30 million milestone payment under its collaboration agreement with Kyowa Kirin in connection with the dosing of the first patient in the KOMET-017 Phase 3 registrational trials of ziftomenib, a once-daily, investigational oral menin inhibitor. Kura and Kyowa Kirin announced the launch of the KOMET-017 trials on September 29, 2025.

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KOMET-017 (NCT07007312) comprises two independent, global, randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 trials to evaluate ziftomenib in combination with both intensive and non-intensive chemotherapy regimens in patients with newly diagnosed NPM1-mutated (NPM1-m) or KMT2A-rearranged (KMT2A-r) acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Kura believes KOMET-017 is the only menin inhibitor program actively pursuing registrational trials across both intensive and non-intensive chemotherapy settings.

(Press release, Kura Oncology, OCT 24, 2025, View Source [SID1234656976])