Kura Oncology and Kyowa Kirin Announce Positive Ziftomenib Monotherapy Registrational Trial and Positive FDA Feedback for Upcoming Frontline Combination Trial Designs
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 05, 2025 - Kura Oncology, Inc. and Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. today announced positive topline results from KOMET-001, the Phase 2 registration-directed trial of ziftomenib, a highly selective, once-daily, oral investigational menin inhibitor, in patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) NPM1-mutant (NPM1-m) acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Topline data for KOMET-001 has been submitted for presentation at an upcoming medical conference in the second quarter of 2025, and Kura is on track to submit a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for ziftomenib in the second quarter of 2025.
The companies, which announced their joint collaboration to commercialize ziftomenib in 2024, also announced they plan to initiate a single protocol containing two independently powered, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, registrational Phase 3 trials to evaluate ziftomenib in combination with both intensive and non-intensive combination regimens in patients with newly diagnosed NPM1-m and KMT2A-rearranged (KMT2A-r) AML, following successful interactions with the FDA. Each frontline trial design includes dual-primary endpoints to support potential U.S. accelerated approval and full approval. The companies plan to initiate the two frontline Phase 3 trials in the second half of 2025 and anticipate multiple clinical data presentations for the ziftomenib AML program as well as Kura’s pipeline programs in 2025.