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Kura Oncology's Troy Wilson On Precision Medicine For Cancer

Since using a reverse-merger last year to go public, Kura Oncology has resurrected an abandoned Janssen cancer candidate and raised $46.5m in an IPO. CEO Troy Wilson spoke with Scrip about the firm's efforts toward precision medicine in cancer.

Kura Oncology Inc. CEO Troy Wilson spoke with Informa Pharma Intelligence at BioPharm America 2016 about his company's precision medicine approach to treating cancer. Its most advanced drug candidate, the farnesyl transferase inhibitor tipifarnib, is getting a second shot now that testing for genetic mutations has become widespread.

Kura Oncology raised $60m in a private placement in 2015 to support Phase II clinical trials for tipifarnib – a drug that Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. dropped in 2008. (Also see "Kura launches with $60m to revive Janssen's tipifarnib" - Scrip, 12 March, 2015

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