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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January 4, 2021

KURA ONCOLOGY, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (858) 500-8800

N/A

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Item 1.01.  Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On January 4, 2021, Kura Oncology, Inc., (the “Company”), entered into a Master Collaboration Agreement and a project schedule, collectively the Agreement, with Illumina, Inc. (“Illumina”). Pursuant to the Agreement, Illumina has agreed to develop and commercialize an assay as a companion diagnostic test to identify head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients with an HRAS mutation for use with tipifarnib, one of the Company’s lead drug candidates. 

 Under the Agreement, Illumina is responsible for developing, and obtaining and maintaining regulatory approvals for, the companion diagnostic test in the United States, the United Kingdom and major European markets and such other countries as the parties may mutually agree. In addition, Illumina has agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to manufacture the companion diagnostic test and to make the companion diagnostic test commercially available in the United States, the United Kingdom and major European markets and such other countries as the parties may mutually agree.

 The foregoing description of the material terms of the Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Agreement, which the Company intends to file, with confidential terms redacted, with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.