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| Item 8.01 | Other Events. |
A Kura Oncology, Inc. (the “Company”) abstract, which will be the subject of an oral presentation at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (“ASH”) on December 10, 2022 (the “ASH Meeting”), was posted on the ASH website on November 3, 2022.
The ASH abstract, which was submitted on August 2, 2022, using an early summer data cutoff, reports updated data from the Company’s KOMET-001 clinical trial of ziftomenib and highlights the encouraging safety profile and clinical activity of ziftomenib in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (“AML”). The abstract includes 30 all-comer AML patients from the Phase 1a dose-escalation portion of the trial and 24 NPM1-mutant or KMT2A-rearranged AML patients from the Phase 1b portion, with 12 patients at 200 mg and 12 patients at 600 mg.
The Company anticipates sharing a more mature dataset from KOMET-001, including preliminary data from an additional 18 patients enrolled in a Phase 1b extension, during its oral presentation at the ASH Meeting.
A copy of the ASH abstract is filed herewith as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
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| 99.1 | ASH Abstract | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) | |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
| KURA ONCOLOGY, INC. | ||||||
| Date: November 3, 2022 | By: | /s/ Teresa Bair | ||||
| Teresa Bair | ||||||
| Chief Legal Officer | ||||||