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Date 10/7/2009
Company Name Epizyme
Mailing Address 840 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139
Company Description Epizyme is a biopharmaceutical company located in Cambridge, MA. Founded in late 2007, the company has brought together premier academic and industry leaders to rapidly translate the exciting discoveries emerging from epigenetic research into specific programs that will produce important, novel, molecularly targeted drugs of the future.
Proceeds Purposes Rapid progress has been made at Epizyme in evolving a robust pipeline of first-in-class inhibitors of histone methyltransferase (HMT) enzymes involved in cancer,” said Epizyme chief executive officer Kazumi Shiosaki, PhD. “With the support of our new investors as well as our existing investors, we are now in a position to progress a number of these lead programs into proof-of-concept studies.