Kura Oncology is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company advancing a pipeline of precision medicines for the treatment of solid tumors and blood cancers. The Company's lead product candidate, tipifarnib, is a potent, selective and orally bioavailable inhibitor of farnesyl transferase. Tipifarnib is a new chemical entity, or NCE, and a member of a class of product candidates called farnesyl transferase inhibitors, or FTIs. Protein farnesylation is a key cell signaling process implicated in various cancer processes, including survival, growth and proliferation of tumor cells.