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NASDAQ:KURA

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Price: 9.68 USD 8.28% Market Closed
Market Cap: $855m

Kura Oncology Inc
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Kura Oncology, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research and development of medicines for the treatment of cancer. The company is headquartered in San Diego, California and currently employs 121 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2015-11-05. The Company’s segment is engaged in discovery and development of medicines for the treatment of cancer. Its pipeline consists of small molecule product candidates that target cancer signaling pathways. The company is developing its product candidate, tipifarnib, which is a farnesyl transferase inhibitor, in both solid tumors and hematologic indications. The company is developing KO-539, a small molecule inhibitor of the Lysine K-specific Methyltransferase 2A (KMT2A) interaction for the treatment of genetically defined subsets of acute leukemias, including acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The firm is developing orally available, small molecule compounds that inhibit the interaction between the proteins menin and MLL for the treatment of MLL-rearranged (MML-r) leukemias, a genetically-defined subset of approximately two forms of acute leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and acute lymphoblastic.

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Last Earnings Call
Fiscal Period
Q4 2025
Call Date
Mar 5, 2026
AI Summary
Q4 2025

Launch: KOMZIFTI launched in late 2025 and generated $2.1 million in net product revenue in the final weeks of the year; management describes the launch as "off to a strong start."

Access: Payers covering ~90% of insured lives were engaged pre-approval; ~84% of private payers established coverage within 90 days and some Blue plans have implemented step edits requiring KOMZIFTI before other menin inhibitors.

Differentiation: Management emphasizes KOMZIFTI's once-daily dosing, lack of azole dose adjustments, single boxed warning (differentiation syndrome) and combinability as competitive advantages.

Development: Registrational KOMET-017 frontline program is enrolling (~200 global sites) with first topline Phase III results anticipated in 2028; multiple combination readouts (including gilteritinib) and KOMET-007 updates expected in 2026.

Second platform: FTI program darlifarnib advancing in combinations (cabozantinib, adagrasib) with Phase Ib randomized expansion initiated in RCC and additional readouts planned in 2026.

Financials & runway: Q4 collaboration revenue was $15.2 million; R&D $64.4 million; SG&A $39.1 million; net loss $8 million. Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments were $667.2 million at year-end 2025; collaboration revenue guidance provided for 2026–2028.

Key Financials
Net product revenue
$2.1 million
Collaboration revenue
$15.2 million
Research and development expenses
$64.4 million
Sales, general and administrative expenses
$39.1 million
Net loss
$8 million
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments
$667.2 million
Q4 commercial/milestone receipts
$195 million
Estimated initial U.S. relapsed/refractory NPM1 market
$350 million to $400 million annually
Estimated total U.S. opportunity for ziftomenib
approximately $7 billion
Patent protection (Orange Book)
through July 2044
Earnings Call Recording
Other Earnings Calls

Management

Dr. Troy Edward Wilson J.D., Ph.D.
Chairman, CEO & President
No Bio Available
Ms. Kathleen Ford
Chief Operating Officer
No Bio Available
Ms. Teresa Brophy Bair Esq., J.D.
Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary
No Bio Available
Dr. Stephen Dale M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
No Bio Available
Mr. Thomas Doyle
Senior Vice President of Finance & Accounting
No Bio Available
Mr. Pete De Spain
Executive Vice President of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
No Bio Available
Dr. Roger Bakale Ph.D.
Senior Vice President of Manufacturing & Supply Chain
No Bio Available
Ms. Maureen Clancy M.B.A.
VP and Global Head of Program Leadership & Project Management
No Bio Available
Dr. Mollie Leoni M.D.
Executive Vice President of Clinical Development
No Bio Available
Mr. Brian T. Powl M.B.A., M.S.
Chief Commercial Officer
No Bio Available

Contacts

Address
CALIFORNIA
San Diego
12730 High Bluff Drive, Suite 400
Contacts
+18585008800.0
www.kuraoncology.com
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