Stopping Shape-Shifting Tumors with a First-in-Class Epigenetic Drug

Stopping Shape-Shifting Tumors with a First-in-Class Epigenetic Drug

June 10, 2026 · 28 min · Episode 178

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Terry Connolly discusses innovative approaches to combat cancer through epigenetic therapies.

Epigenetics, the layer of chemical switches that controls how genes are turned on and off, can act like cancer’s operating system when a single epigenetic enzyme becomes essential for a tumor to survive. K36 Therapeutics is developing first‑in‑class medicines that block an epigenetic enzyme that helps certain multiple myeloma cells grow, change identity to escape treatment, and become resistant to today’s drugs. Terry Connolly, CEO of K36, discusses a new way to fight cancer by changing how cancer cells read their DNA instead of chasing one mutation at a time, how K36’s experimental therapies aim to re‑sensitize tumors to existing treatments, and the potential to create new options for people whose cancers have stopped responding.

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