K36 Therapeutics Launches With $30 Million Series A Financing From F-Prime Capital And Atlas Venture With Eight Roads Ventures

K36 Therapeutics, Inc. ("K36"), a privately held biotechnology company developing breakthrough therapies for the unmet medical needs of cancer patients, announced today its $30 million Series A financing co-led by F-Prime Capital and Atlas Venture with Eight Roads Ventures. The funds will be used to advance the company's lead candidate, KTX-1001, through its first clinical proof-of-concept studies. KTX-1001 is a first-in-class, selective inhibitor of the histone methyltransferase (HMT) MMSET, which is overexpressed in up to 20% of multiple myeloma patients due to a t(4;14) translocation