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Epizyme (EPZM) Announces Earning $6M Milestone Related to GSK3326595 Phase 1

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Epizyme Earns $6 Million Milestone Payment from GlaxoSmithKline for Initiation of Clinical Development with First-in-Class PRMT5 Inhibitor

September 15, 2016 6:30 AM EDT

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 15, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Epizyme, Inc. (NASDAQ: EPZM), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company creating novel epigenetic therapeutics, today announced it has earned a $6 million milestone payment from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The milestone payment follows GSKs initiation of patient dosing in a Phase 1 clinical trial of GSK3326595 (formerly EPZ015938), a first-in-class protein arginine methyltransferase-5 (PRMT5) inhibitor discovered by Epizyme and licensed to GSK. PRMT5 is a protein methyltransferase that is associated with a number of human cancers.

Epizyme has pioneered the discovery and development of epigenetic therapies for the... More